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