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Snow Trail

Snow Trail
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySenkichi Taniguchi
Written byAkira Kurosawa
Senkichi Taniguchi (uncredited)
Produced byTomoyuki Tanaka
CinematographyJunichi Segawa
Edited bySenkichi Taniguchi
Akira Kurosawa (uncredited)
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • August 5, 1947 (1947-08-05)[1]
Running time
89 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.

Plot

Three 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

References

  1. ^ "銀嶺の果て". Jmdb.ne.jp. 20 May 2000. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b "銀嶺の果て". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  3. ^ "銀嶺の果て". kotobank. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  4. ^ "銀嶺の果て". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.