Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
- japan
- male friendship
- border crossing
- jidaigeki
- sengoku period
- feudal japan
- 16th century
- mountain fortress
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Toshirō Mifune
General Rokurota Makabe
Minoru Chiaki
Tahei
Kamatari Fujiwara
Matashichi
Misa Uehara
Princess Yuki
- Susumu Fujita — General Hyoe Tadokoro
- Takashi Shimura — General Izumi Nagakura
- Ikio Sawamura — Gambler (uncredited)
- Kōji Mitsui — Guard (uncredited)
- Takeo Oikawa — Guard (uncredited)
- Yū Fujiki — Guard (uncredited)
- Yutaka Sada — Guard (uncredited)
- Haruo Suzuki — Horseman (uncredited)
- Haruya Sakamoto — Horseman (uncredited)
- Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi — Horseman (uncredited)
- Minoru Itō — Horseman (uncredited)
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
Production
- Studio
- TOHO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
