Snow Trail

Snow Trail

Japanese movie poster
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Written by Akira Kurosawa
Senkichi Taniguchi (uncredited)
Music by Akira Ifukube
Cinematography Junichi Segawa
Edited by Senkichi Taniguchi
Akira Kurosawa (uncredited)
Production
company
Distributed by Toho
Release dates
  • August 5, 1947 (1947-08-05)[1]
Running time
89 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

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. It was the first film role for Toshirō Mifune, 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

The story follows the fate of three bank robbers (Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Yoshio Kosugi) on the run from the police, who 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

References

  1. (Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1947/bw000570.htm accessed 5 January 2009


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