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The 47 Ronin

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    …treatments included director Mizoguchi Kenji’s Genroku Chūshingura (1941; The 47 Ronin); Ichikawa Kon’s Shijūshichinin no shikaku (1994), which cast Japanese film legend Ken Takakura in the role of Ōishi; and the Hollywood-produced 47 Ronin (2013), a special effects-driven fantasy starring Keanu Reeves that bore only a passing resemblance to the…

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