Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. He saves the life of a princess whom he gets to fall in love with. It turns out that she is just his prospective bride.
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward looking samurai from Choshu, who along with Katsura Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa worked to bring their dream of a new era in Japan.
El 14 de Marzo de 1701, en la real capital de Edo, el señor feudal Asano ataca al señor Kiru mientras se encuentra en tierra sagrada. A causa de esta grave ofensa, Asano es obligado a hacerse el harakiri. Sin embargo, 47 de sus samuráis juran vengar a su amo. Estrenada en dos partes en Japón, la primera de 112 minutos el 1 de diciembre de 1941 y la segunda de 111 minutos el 11 de febrero de 1942. (FILMAFFINITY)
