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Street of Ronin

Street of Ronin

1957•1h 50m•6.0/10
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6.0/10(5)

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned former warrior gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to retrieve a famous knife from a corrupt lord. This is the third version directed by Makino Masahiro and is considered a true classic.

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Production

Shochiku

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jūshirō Konoe

Jūshirō Konoe

Seizaburō Kawazu

Seizaburō Kawazu

Susumu Fujita

Susumu Fujita

Yatarō Kitagami

Ichirō Ryūzaki

Ichirō Ryūzaki

Mieko Takamine

Mieko Takamine

Machiko Mizuhara

Kurumi Yamabato

Kurumi Yamabato

Chizuko Nogami

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Tatsuya Ishiguro

Gen Shimizu

Gen Shimizu

Kenji Mori

Choji Oka

Kenzō Tanaka

Hideo Hongo

Noboru Umezawa

Fortune-teller

Ichirō Izumi

Retired person

Toshie Nakajima

Omasa

Takeshi Osada

Kyunojô Shibamori

Naojiro Umemura

Mansuke Nakama

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