Impressively scaled, but blandly impersonal retelling of the classic Japanese story about the 47 Ronin (unattached Samurai) of the late Lord Asano. Their sponsor/master was goaded into attacking a venal government official and had to commit seppuku. Megger Hiroshi Inagaki can barely keep track of all the players and stylistically he’s unable to animate the artificial studio set exteriors. (See Kinugasa ’s GATE OF HELL/’53 to see what’s missing here.) The whole show has the mildewed feel of those Hollywood sanctioned overstuffed super-Westerns from about the same time (HOW THE WEST WAS WON, THE ALAMO) while the cultural themes of the story are somewhat off-putting for a non-Japanese audience. – Please see 47 RONIN, above.
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