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

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from a screenplay by

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. It was the first film role for

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

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, later became long-term collaborators of 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.

Cast

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as Eijima *

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

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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