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Snow Trail

Snow Trail

19476.91h 29m

Overview

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Written by Akira Kurosawa
Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka
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Top Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Eijima

Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura

Nojiri

Setsuko Wakayama

Setsuko Wakayama

Haruko

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Akitake Kōno

Honda

Yoshio Kosugi

Yoshio Kosugi

Takasugi

Kokuten Kōdō

Kokuten Kōdō

Haruko's Grandfather

Taizō Fukami

Taizō Fukami

Chief Detective

E

Eizaburô Sakauchi

F

Fumio Ōmachi

N

Nobumitsu Mochizuki

Themes & Keywords

mountaineerfugitivesnowboundsearch partymountain rescue

About Snow Trail

Snow Trail is a drama, crime film released in 1947 exploring themes of mountaineer, fugitive, snowbound, search party, mountain rescue. Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi, it stars Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Setsuko Wakayama. Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.

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