47 Ronin (3D) | Theatres List

The Edo period was witness to what was simultaneously one of the most prosperous and one of the most totalitarian regimes in Japan. In the years between 1600 and 1868, the region saw unprecedented economic growth, extremely rigid social orders, and foreign policies that were almost xenophobic in their utter distrust of possible external allies.

To conceive a proper picture of Japanese feudal society at that time, one has to conjure images of genuflecting farmers, unrelenting Shoguns with their elaborate palatial etiquette and their insistence on the upholding of certain i....