{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox film | name = Snow Trail | image = Snow Trail poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Senkichi Taniguchi | producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka | writer = Akira Kurosawa<br/>Senkichi Taniguchi (uncredited) | starring = | music = Akira Ifukube | studio = Toho | cinematography = Junichi Segawa | editing = Senkichi Taniguchi<br/ >Akira Kurosawa (uncredited) | distributor = Toho | released = {{Film date|1947|08|05|ref1=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1947/bw000570.htm |title=銀嶺の果て |publisher=Jmdb.ne.jp |date=2000-05-20 |accessdate=2021-06-07}}</ref>}} | runtime = 89 minutes | country = Japan | language = Japanese | budget = }} {{Nihongo|'''''Snow Trail'''''|銀嶺の果て|Ginrei no Hate|lead=yes}} is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa.<ref name=aca>{{cite web|url=https://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=3918|title=銀嶺の果て|publisher=Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム|accessdate=2 November 2019}}</ref> It was the first film role for Toshirō Mifune,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%8A%80%E5%B6%BA%E3%81%AE%E6%9E%9C%E3%81%A6-688480|title=銀嶺の果て|publisher=kotobank|accessdate=27 December 2020}}</ref><ref name=aca/> 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 Kurosawa.
==Plot== Three bank robbers (Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Yoshio Kosugi) on the run from the police 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=26878&key_search=%E9%8A%80%E5%B6%BA%E3%81%AE%E6%9E%9C%E3%81%A6|title=銀嶺の果て|publisher=Kinema Junpo|accessdate=27 December 2020}}</ref>
== 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
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== External links == * {{IMDb title|0039423|Snow Trail}}
Category:Japanese black-and-white films Category:1947 films Category:Films directed by Senkichi Taniguchi Category:Toho films Category:Films produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Category:Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa Category:Films with screenplays by Senkichi Taniguchi Category:Films scored by Akira Ifukube Category:Films about bank robbery Category:Japanese crime drama films Category:1947 crime drama films Category:1947 Japanese films
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