kills her as well, proclaiming that it is Oishi's fault for waiting too long, then he kills himself. Jujiro brings their infant daughter to Oishi. The Ako warriors descend on an inn where Kira is sleeping following a tea ceremony. Fuwa defeats Kobayashi after a long battle, then they search the house for those who are hiding. Kira is found and they blow a whistle to summon Oishi, who kills him. Asano's wife is told of their success and she is overcome with regret that 47 ronin have now sacrificed themselves for one man. Yanagisawa views their act as an attack on the infallibility of the shogunate and sentences them all to seppuku but the shogunate also abolishes the name Kira. Cast Yorozuya Kinnosuke as Ōishi Kuranosuke Sonny Chiba as Fuwa Kazuemon Tsunehiko Watase as Kobayashi Heihachiro Masaomi Kondo as Hashimoto Heizaemon Toshiro Mifune as Tsuchiya Michinao Kyōko Enami as Ukibashi Mitsuteru Nakamura as Date Muratoyo Shinsuke Mikimoto as Tsuchiya Masanao Teruhiko Saigō as Asano Takumi no Kami Nobuo Kaneko as Kira Kōzukenosuke Hiroki Matsukata as Denhachiro Tamon Yoshiko Mita as Yozeiin Mariko Okada as Ōishi Riku Sanae Nakahara as Todano Tsubone Ken Nishida as Asano Daigaku Junkichi Orimoto as Izeki Tokubei Kyoko Enami as Ukihashi Jun Fujimaki as Okajima Runtarō Mine as Hayami Toemon Toru Minegishi as Horibe Yasubei Minori Terada as Otaka Gengo Ryosuke Kagawa as Uchikawa Magozaemon Naruse Masashi as Okano Kingoemon Yoshirō Aoki as Ueda Mondo Tatsuo Endō as Yoshida Chuzaemon Mieko Harada as Hatsune Hatsu Kensaku Morita as Hazama Jujirō Ryo Tamura as Uesugi Noritsuna Hiroshi Miyauchi as Kayano Sanppie Seizo Fukumoto as Spy Takuya Fujioka as Ōno Kurobei Go Wakabayashi as Araki Hideji Otaki Mikio Narita as Katō Etchu Tetsurō Tamba as Yanagisawa References External links 1978 films 1978 martial arts films 1970s Japanese-language films Films about the Forty-seven Ronin Films directed by Kinji Fukasaku Films set in castles Films set in the 1700s Films set in Edo Films set in Hyōgo Prefecture Films set in Kyoto Films set in the Edo period Jidaigeki films Samurai films Toei Company films 1970s Japanese films