Snow Trail

Snow Trail Ginrei no hate is a 1947 blackandwhite Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from Akira Kurosawas screenplay. It was the first film role for Toshir Mifune, later to become one of Japans most famous actors. Mifune and the other main actor in the film, Takashi Shimura, later became longterm collaborators of film director Akira Kurosawa.

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 dont know that the men are criminals, and a tense standoff starts to unfold.

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