Snow Trail

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{{Infobox film

| name = Snow Trail

| image = Snow Trail poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Senkichi Taniguchi

| producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka

| writer = Akira Kurosawa
Senkichi Taniguchi (uncredited)

| starring =

| music = Akira Ifukube

| studio = Toho

| cinematography = Junichi Segawa

| editing = Senkichi Taniguchi
Akira Kurosawa (uncredited)

| distributor = Toho

| released = {{Film date|1947|08|05|ref1={{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}}}}

| 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.{{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}} It was the first film role for Toshirō Mifune,{{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}} 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.{{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}}

Cast

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