Snow Trail
1947 Japanese film
- August 5, 1947 (1947-08-05)[1]
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Snow Trail (Japanese: 銀嶺の果て, Hepburn: Ginrei no Hate) is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from Akira Kurosawa's screenplay.[2] It was the first film role for Toshirō Mifune,[3][2] later to become one of Japan's most famous actors. Mifune and the other main actor in the film, Takashi Shimura, later became long-term collaborators of film director Akira Kurosawa.
Plot
Three bank robbers (Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Yoshio Kosugi) on the run from the police hide out high up in the snowy Japanese mountains in a remote lodge inhabited by an old man, his granddaughter and an intrepid mountaineer (Akitake Kono) trapped there by a recent blizzard. They don't know that the men are criminals, and a tense standoff starts to unfold.[4]
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune as Eijima
- Takashi Shimura as Nojiro
- Yoshio Kosugi as Takasugi
- Akitake Kono as Honda
- Setsuko Wakayama as Haruko
- Kokuten Kōdō as Haruko's Grandfather
References
- ^ "銀嶺の果て". Jmdb.ne.jp. 20 May 2000. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ a b "銀嶺の果て". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ "銀嶺の果て". kotobank. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "銀嶺の果て". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
External links
- Snow Trail at IMDb
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