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    first Chūshingura was written some 50 years after the event, and numerous historical records about the actual events that predate the Chūshingura survive...
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    The 47 Ronin (元禄 忠臣蔵, Genroku Chūshingura, "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers of the Genroku Era") is a black-and-white two-part jidaigeki Japanese film...
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    Otoko) 1941–42: The 47 Ronin a.k.a. The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (Genroku chūshingura) 1944: Three Generations of Danjuro (Danjurō sandai) 1944:...
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  • Takizawa as Kōzukenosuke Kira Forty-seven Ronin The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku Chūshingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi Daichūshingura (大忠臣蔵, Daichūshingura)...
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    Isuke - Yatagoro henchman Abe ichizoku (1938) The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵 Genroku chushingura) (1941) - Fuwa Kazuemon (uncredited) Bosu (1949) Bangaku Edo e yuku...
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    Meiji. The story of Kira assassination was firstly written as Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) in 1703, and it has been told in kabuki, bunraku, Rōkyoku,...
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  • Kyū Nishikie Daihime Kago Tsurube Hachibbashi-tsuki Chaya Mawari Genroku Chūshingura Isekimon Saemon Kikubatake Koshimoto Shiragiku Yakko Dōjōji Shoke...
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  • Invasions of Japan. Genroku Ryōran (1999). Kabuki actor Nakamura Kankurō V played Ōishi Kuranosuke in this story set in the Genroku period, during which...
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    Yoshinoyama, are acts in the kabuki plays adapted from bunraku, Kanadehon Chūshingura and Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura. In addition, during climaxes of nihon-buyō...
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    Ōba 1941: The 47 Ronin a.k.a. The Loyal 47 Ronin of the Genroku Era (元禄忠臣蔵 Genroku chūshingura) – dir. Kenji Mizoguchi 1942: Aratanaru kōfuku (新たなる幸福)...
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  • Who Disappeared (Norway) United States unless stated The 47 Ronin (Genroku chushingura), directed by Kenji Mizoguchi – (Japan) 49th Parallel, directed by...
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    series Kusa Moeru, Irobe Matashiro in the 1999 NHK series Genroku Ryoran (involving the chushingura, that is, the story of the Forty-seven rōnin), Shibata...
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    Print of Edo: Hatamoto to Machiyakko) (1939) The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chūshingura) (1941/1942) Kojiki Taishō (1952) Ninkyō Shimizu-minato (任侠清水港, Ninkyō...
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    successful of them was a bunraku play called Kanadehon Chūshingura (now simply called Chūshingura, or "Treasury of Loyal Retainers"), written in 1748 by...
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  • portrayed Aguri, Keiko also played Riku, the wife of Oishi Yoshio, in Chūshingura Yōzen'in no Inbō, broadcast on January 2, 2007. She played Taira no Tokiko...
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    Yoshinaka stood on this site. The Forty-seven rōnin killed him during the Genroku era. Kinshicho Station, among the most popular places to play the mobile...
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    historical settings as metaphors for contemporary events. Kanadehon Chūshingura, one of the most famous plays in the kabuki repertoire, serves as an...
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    Tsuchi (土) (1939) Mud and Soldiers (土と兵隊) (1939) The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) (1941/1942) I Am Waiting (俺は待ってるぜ, Ore wa matteru ze) (1957) Jazz...
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  • Ronin Other films about Forty-seven ronin: The 47 Ronin (元禄忠臣蔵, Genroku chushingura) - 1941 film by Kenji Mizoguchi Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki...
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  • drawing heavily upon Japanese folklore and mythology. It is set in the Genroku period, itself within the larger Edo period, during the reign of the shogun...
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  • Theater, 2010 Nationwide) Onna-tachi no Chūshingura (2006 Meiji-za) Akane Sora (2007 Chunichi Theatre) Chūshingura: Inochi Moyurutoki (2007 Meiji-za) The...
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    senbonzakura (1747, The Thousand Cherry Blossoms of Yoshitsune), and Kanadehon chūshingura (1748, The Treasure of the Loyal Retainers). Namiki died while writing...
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  • drama / Hideyoshi (NHK, 1996) - Ishikawa Kazumasa Chushingura (Fuji TV, 1996) NHK Taiga drama / Genroku Ryouran (NHK, 1999) - Heihachiro Kobayashi Okan...
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    Mishima was 13, Natsuko took him to see his first Kabuki play: Kanadehon Chūshingura, an allegory of the story of the 47 Rōnin. He was later taken to his...
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    Tsunayoshi. The story continues to be dramatized more than 300 years later in Chūshingura theater, novels and film. March 21 – Jeanne Guyon is freed in Paris after...
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    Nishimura A Holiday in Tokyo 1960 Daughters, Wives and a Mother 1962 Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki Toda no Tsubone A Wanderer's Notebook Kyōko...
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  • Kahoyo Gozen, wife of Enya Takasada (ja), in a scene from Kanadehon Chūshingura. 38 Ariko weeps as her boat drifts in the moonlight A scene from Genpei...
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  • Date Event 1703 20 March Chūshingura – Forty-seven rōnin were ordered to commit seppuku by the shōgun. 31 December 1703 Genroku earthquake and tsunami 1707...
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  • Thumbnail for Yukio Ninagawa
    Macbeth (NINAGAWA Makubesu) (NINAGAWAマクベス) - by William Shakespeare 1980 Genroku minato uta (元禄港歌) - by Matsuyo Akimoto 1981 Shitayamannen-cho monogatari...
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    Ichimura-Takenojō-za, and Yamamura-za. After all four were destroyed in the 1703 Great Genroku fire, and rebuilt, there began a tradition of co-producing plays for New...
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