Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Ken Takakura
Kuranosuke Oishi
Kiichi Nakai
Matashiro Irobe
Rie Miyazawa
Karu
Koji Ishizaka
Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa
Ruriko Asaoka
Riku
Hisaya Morishige
Hyobu Chisaka
Ryudo Uzaki
Yasubê Horibe
Tatsuo Matsumura
Yahê Horibe
Hisashi Igawa
Okuda
Gaku Yamamoto
Chûzaemon Yoshida
Shigeru Kōyama
Jûnai Onodera
Isao Bitō
Jun Hashizume
Renji Ishibashi
Heihachirô Kobayashi
Saburo Ishikura
Yuka Kono
Hitomi Kuroki
Misa Shimizu
Yuko Kotegawa
Kikunosuke Onoe V
B-saku Satoh
Michino Yokoyama
Akiji Kobayashi
Akira Kubo
Gen Idemitsu
Masayuki Imai
Toshi Shioya
Kō Nishimura
Ken Kobayashi
Hirokazu Inoue
Yuzuru Nishimura
Shinji Yamaguchi
Atsuo Nakamura
Eiji Bandō
Nenji Kobayashi
Shirou Kajiwara
Narrator
Yo Takeyama
Screenplay
Kon Ichikawa
Kaneo Ikegami
Director
Original Story
Toshimasa Miyamura
Assistant Director
Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design
Chizuko Osada
Editor
Ikuko Saito
Costumer
Kazuo Shimomura
Gaffer
Yukio Isohata
Director of Photography
Kensaku Tanikawa
Original Music Composer
Masao Iwase
Music Producer
Masatoshi Saito
Sound Effects
Hidehiko Takei
Associate Producer
Yoshishige Shimatani
Producer
Jun'ichi Shindô
