The Hidden Fortress
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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
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| Music by | Masaru Sato |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Yamasaki |
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| Country | Japan |
The Hidden Fortress (隠し砦の三悪人 Kakushi toride no san akunin?, literally, "The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress") is a 1958 jidaigekiadventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune as General Makabe Rokurōta (真壁 六郎太?) and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki.
Two bedraggled peasants, Tahei (Minoru Chiaki) and Matashichi (Kamatari Fujiwara) through conversation, reveal that they had intended to fight alongside the Yamana clan, but turned up too late, were taken for soldiers of the defeated Akizuki clan, and forced to bury the dead. After quarreling and splitting up, the two are both again captured separately then forced to dig for gold in the Akizuki castle with other prisoners.
After a prisoner uprising, Tahei and Matashichi escape. Near a river they find gold marked with the crescent of the Akizuki clan. They thereafter travel with the General of the defeated Akizuki clan, Makabe Rokurōta (Toshiro Mifune), while escorting Princess Yuki Akizuki (Misa Uehara) and what remains of her family's gold to a secret territory. In order to keep her identity secret, Yuki poses as a mute.
During the mission, the peasants impede it and sometimes try to seize the gold. They are later joined by a farmer’s daughter (Toshiko Higuchi), whom they acquire from a slave-trader. Eventually, they are captured and held by Rokurōta's rival, who later unexpectedly sides with the Princess and Rokurōta.
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