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For two hundred years, no other story has captured the hearts and imagination of the Japanese people more than Chushingura. When Lord Asano is forced by a corrupt lord to commit hara kiri, forty-seven loyal samurai seek vengeance. Often referred to as the Gone With The Wind of the Japanese cinema, Chushingura is an unparallelled example of the true samurai spirit.
"...exquisitely beautiful." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Spectacle, intrigue and pure pleasure-giving artistry...beautiully photographed in dazzling color." Edward Guthmann. San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
In the dawn of the 18th century, a young lord is sentenced to ritual suicide for an act of disobedience stemming from corruption in the Shogun's court. Masterless and displaced, his followers bide their time, suffering humiliation and poverty, waiting for the chance to prove their loyalty and adherence to the fading virtues of Bushido. A Japanese classic, often characterized as "the 'Gone With the Wind' of Japan."
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