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The Fall of Ako Castle (赤穂城断絶, Akō-jō danzetsu) is a 1978 Japanese historical martial arts period film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. [1] It depicts the story of the forty-seven Ronin (Chūshingura). The film is one of a series of period films by Fukasaku starring Yorozuya Kinnosuke, including Shogun's Samurai.
Other film versions include the 1978 adventure drama directed by Kinji Fukasaku and called The Fall of Ako Castle, or the 1985 Chūshingura: Vendetta of Obligation directed by Masuda Toshio and the 2010 Chūshingura (Sono Otoko Oishi Kuranosuke) directed by Saizo Kosei with Tamura Masakazu.
He also occasionally returned to the science fiction genre, in movies such as Message from Space (1978). He also began to star on some jidaigeki such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), The Fall of Ako Castle (1978), G.I. Samurai (1979), Shadow Warriors (1980), and Samurai Reincarnation (1981).
Ako's Forty-Seven Samurai – Web site produced by students at Akō High School; contains the story of the 47 ronin's story, and images of wooden votive tablets of the 47 ronin in the Ōishi Shrine, Akō; The Trouble with Terasaka: The Forty-Seventh Ronin and the Chushingura Imagination by Henry D. Smith II, Japan Review, 2004, 16:3–65
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1978 films. It includes 1978 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for martial arts films released in the year 1978 .
人生劇場 Theater of Life; Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku Sadao Nakajima Junya Satō: Written by: Kinji Fukasaku Sadao Nakajima (own segment) Tatsuo Nogami (screenplay)
Kinji Fukasaku (Japanese: 深作 欣二, Hepburn: Fukasaku Kinji, 3 July 1930 – 12 January 2003) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Known for his "broad range and innovative filmmaking", [1] Fukasaku worked in many different genres and styles, but was best known for his gritty yakuza films, typified by the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973–1976).
(A different Araki, the hatamoto Jūzaemon, was his character in a later film, The Fall of Ako Castle, directed by Kinji Fukasaku.) Also in 1971, he appeared as Maehara Isuke in the year-long series Daichūshingura with Toshirō Mifune.