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 a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa.[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 Kurosawa.
| Snow Trail | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Senkichi Taniguchi |
| Written by | Akira Kurosawa Senkichi Taniguchi (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Cinematography | Junichi Segawa |
| Edited by | Senkichi Taniguchi Akira Kurosawa (uncredited) |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Plot
editThree 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
edit- 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
editExternal links
edit- Snow Trail at IMDb
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