is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by

Senkichi Taniguchi (February 19, 1912 – October 29, 2007) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L. ...

from

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...

's screenplay. It was the first film role for

Toshirō Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration (1948–1965) with Akira Kurosawa in such works as ''Rashomon'', ''Seven Samurai'', ''The Hidden Fortress'', ''Throne of Blood'', and ' ...

, later to become one of Japan's most famous actors. Mifune and the other main actor in the film,

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in '' Drunken Angel'' (1948), ''Rashomon'' (1950), ''Ikiru'' (1952) a ...

, later became long-term collaborators of film director

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.

Cast

* Toshiro Mifune as Eijima *

as Nojiro *

Yoshio Kosugi was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 120 films from 1924 to 1967. Career First appearing on stage as a shingeki actor, he was initially recognized for his role as Yasha in ''The Cherry Orchard''. He made his film debut in the 1920s a ...

as Takasugi * Akitake Kono as Honda * Setsuko Wakayama as Haruko * Kokuten Kōdō as Haruko's Grandfather

References

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* Japanese black-and-white films 1947 films Films directed by Senkichi Taniguchi Toho films Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa Films with screenplays by Senkichi Taniguchi Films scored by Akira Ifukube Films about bank robbery Japanese crime drama films 1947 crime drama films {{1940s-Japan-film-stub