The Hidden Fortress

What you make of another's kindness is up to you.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Drama Action Adventure

Toshirō Mifune

(General Rokurota Makabe)

Minoru Chiaki

Kamatari Fujiwara

Misa Uehara

(Princess Yuki)

Susumu Fujita

(General Hyoe Tadokoro)

Takashi Shimura

(General Izumi Nagakura)

Ikio Sawamura

(Gambler (uncredited))

Kōji Mitsui

(Guard (uncredited))

Takeo Oikawa

(Guard (uncredited))

Yū Fujiki

(Guard (uncredited))

Yutaka Sada

(Guard (uncredited))

Haruo Suzuki

(Horseman (uncredited))

Haruya Sakamoto

(Horseman (uncredited))

Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

(Horseman (uncredited))

Minoru Itō

(Horseman (uncredited))

Shigekatsu Kanazawa

(Horseman (uncredited))

Shin Ōtomo

(Horseman (uncredited))

Yoshio Tsuchiya

(Horseman (uncredited))

Eiko Miyoshi

(Maid (uncredited))

Toranosuke Ogawa

(Magistrate (uncredited))

Kokuten Kōdō

(Old Man (uncredited))

Etsurō Saijō

(Samurai (uncredited))

Fuminori Ōhashi

(Samurai (uncredited))

Masayoshi Nagashima

(Samurai (uncredited))

Takeshi Katō

(Samurai (uncredited))

Toshiko Higuchi

(Slave Girl (uncredited))

Kichijirō Ueda

(Slave Trader (uncredited))

Nakajirō Tomita

(Slave Buyer (uncredited))

Yoshibumi Tajima

(Slave Buyer (uncredited))

Akira Tani

(Soldier (uncredited))

Haruo Nakajima

(Soldier (uncredited))

Ichirō Chiba

(Soldier (uncredited))

Makoto Satō

(Soldier (uncredited))

Ryū Kuze

(Soldier (uncredited))

Sachio Sakai

(Soldier (uncredited))

Senkichi Ōmura

(Soldier (uncredited))

Shōichi Hirose

(Soldier (uncredited))

Takuzō Kumagai

(Soldier (uncredited))

Yoshio Kosugi

(Soldier (uncredited))

Rinsaku Ogata

(Young Man (uncredited))

Tadao Nakamaru

(Young Man (uncredited))