Snow Trail

Snow Trail
File:Snow Trail poster.jpg Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Senkichi Taniguchi
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Written by	Akira Kurosawa Senkichi Taniguchi (uncredited)
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Production company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	August 5, 1947 (1947-08-05)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Snow Trail (銀嶺の果て 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.

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

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.

External links

• Snow Trail at IMDb