Snow Trail

Original title: Ginrei no hate

1947
1h 29m

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Toshirô Mifune, Akitake Kôno, Takashi Shimura, and Setsuko Wakayama in Snow Trail (1947)

Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.

Director
- Senkichi Taniguchi
Writers
- Akira Kurosawa
- Senkichi Taniguchi
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Director
- Senkichi Taniguchi
Writers
- Akira Kurosawa
- Senkichi Taniguchi
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
This was the first feature for both actor Toshirô Mifune and composer Akira Ifukube.

Quotes
Haruko's Grandfather: Don't make a fuss about it. The mighty mountain will punish the bad.

Connections
Referenced in Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015)

Soundtracks
Oh! Susanna
(uncredited)
Written by Stephen Foster
[The song played on the record player to which Haruko asks Honda to dance]

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6/10

Interesting early Kurosawa Mifune

Thieves hide in a small lodge in the mountains as the police trail them. They decide to cross over the top but things go wrong (of course).

This was an early Kurosawa script and Mifune role and you can see lots of what came later in this fairly straightforward crime story. It's got some nice mountain photography and suspense even though it's nothing you can't predict or have seen before. Still worth it for the people involved.

It's quick moving and well acted so worth checking out if TCM shows it or you find a DVD somewhere.

Black and white, reasonable length, good score, check it out and have a good time!