Street of Ronin (1957)
Overview
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.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 2.589 |
Directed By
Masahiro Makino
Crew
Kazuo Ueda
Masahiro Makino
Shigeru Kobayashi
Seigo Shindô
Itarō Yamagami
Akiei Sugimura
Masahiro Makino
Genzo Murakami
Isamu Hashimoto
Seiichi Suzuki
Masao Takekawa
Akira Mimura
Susumu Irie
Kazuo Isoda
TOP CAST
Noboru Umezawa
Fortune-teller
Ichirō Izumi
Retired person
Toshie Nakajima
Omasa
Takeshi Osada
Kyunojô Shibamori
Naojiro Umemura
Mansuke Nakama
Isamu Sakurai
Obata's retainer
Reizaburo Umewaka
Young master
Morie Ishida
Palanquin bearer
Haruji Inoue
Painter Eizan
Jirô Môri
Samurai from Sakushû
Shigeo Shizuyama
Mask maker
Yoshihiko Uemura
Palanquin bearer
Saburō Nagaoka
Hatamoto
Giichi Okaichi
Hatamoto
Ichirô Fushimi
Hatamoto
Yoshiya Fujiyama
Hatamoto
Ryô Miyadzu
Hatamoto
Hisano Yamato
Woman at tea-stall
Fusako Suzuki
Woman at tea-stall
Kazuko Futaba
Woman at hot bath
Michiyo Azuma
Woman at hot bath
Teruko Mikasa
Woman at hot bath
Toshiko Uno
Woman at hot bath
Mihoko Kawahara
Chambermaid