| Snow Trail | |
| Director: | Senkichi Taniguchi |
| Producer: | Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| Music: | Akira Ifukube |
| Studio: | Toho |
| Cinematography: | Junichi Segawa |
| Editing: | Senkichi Taniguchi Akira Kurosawa (uncredited) |
| Distributor: | Toho |
| Runtime: | 89 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa.[1] It was the first film role for Toshirō Mifune,[2] [1] 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.
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.[3]