RANDOM MOVIE
Join our free weekly newsletter.
Salty Popcorn > 1958 > Action | Adventure | Drama > The Hidden Fortress
Search Page
1958 | DIRECTED BY AKIRA KUROSAWA

The Hidden Fortress

No rating yet! Leave your score below.
No cover art for The Hidden Fortress
Join to follow this movie
Movie Stats
Year
1958
Runtime
 126 minutes (2 hrs 06 mins)
Select Cast
Toshiro Mifune
Minoru Chiaki
Kamatari Fujiwara
Susumu Fujita
Takashi Shimura
Misa Uehara
Full cast and crew
Salty Popcorn Stats
First viewed:
16th Aug 2022
Last viewed:
18th Jan 2026
Total views:
46
Release Dates
US release date
 US release
6th October 1960
66 years 1 months 8 days ago
Total Grosses
United States Flag
US total gross
  $183.6 Thousand
Cinema Tickets Sold
United States Flag
US tickets sold
282,429 aprox.
Box Office Breakdown
UK Release
US Box Office
  • Release: 6th Oct '60
  • Debut weekend: 22nd Jun '01
  • Debut position: 37
  • Highest position: 37
  • Debut gross: $60.5 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 2
Global Box Office
  • No global cinema data.
Directed by
akira kurosawa Akira Kurosawa
Starring
Toshiro MifuneGeneral Rokurota Makabe
Minoru ChiakiTahei
Kamatari FujiwaraMatashichi
Susumu FujitaGeneral Hyoe Tadokoro
Takashi ShimuraThe Old General, Izumi Nagakura
Misa UeharaPrincess Yuki
Eiko MiyoshiOld Lady-in-Waiting
Toshiko HiguchiFarmer's Daughter bought from slave trader
Yu FujikiBarrier guard
Yoshio TsuchiyaSamurai on horse
Kokuten KodoOld man in front of sign
Takeshi KatoFleeing, bloody samurai
Koji MitsuiGuard
Toranosuke OgawaMagistrate of the bridge barrier
Kichijiro UedaSlave Trader
Nakajiro TomitaPotential slave buyer
Yoshifumi TajimaPotential slave buyer
Ikio SawamuraGambler
Senkichi OmuraSoldier
Sachio SakaiCaptured foot soldier
Makoto SatoYamada foot soldier
Yoshio KosugiAkisuki soldier
Akira TaniCaptured foot soldier
Yutaka SadaGuard at bridge barrier
Takeo OikawaGuard at pass barrier
Tadao NakamaruYoung Man
Takuzo KumagaiYamana foot soldier
Shoichi HiroseYamana soldier
Etsuo SaijoYamana samurai
Masayoshi NagashimaYamana samurai
Fuminori OhashiSamurai
Shin OtomoSamurai on horseback
Minoru ItoSamurai on horseback
Haruo SuzukiSamurai on horseback
Shigekatsu KanazawaSamurai on horseback
Kazuo HinataYamana foot soldier on the opposite shore
Haruo NakajimaAkisuki soldier
Ryu KuzeAkitsuki soldier
Ichiro ChibaYamana foot soldier
Shigemi SunagawaYamana foot soldier
Rinsaku OgataSecond Young Man
Hiroyoshi YamaguchiSamurai on horseback
Haruya SakamotoSamurai on horseback
ADVERTISMENT
Movie Ratings

What is your rating?

Not Yet Popped

The Hidden Fortress has 0 ratings

Here are the 6 most recent

Freshness Breakdown

Freshly Popped
 
0
Well-Seasoned
 
0
Plain
 
0
Stale
 
0
Unpopped Kernel
 
0
Movie Reviews

How about leaving a review or comment for 'The Hidden Fortress'?

Your Display Name:

Email address

Your 140 character review:

 Characters Left

My rating

By clicking Submit you agree to our terms and conditions and privacy policy.

Popularity over the last 10 days
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
14th Nov 2026
13th Nov 2026
12th Nov 2026
11th Nov 2026
10th Nov 2026
9th Nov 2026
8th Nov 2026
7th Nov 2026
6th Nov 2026
5th Nov 2026
UK Box Office Chart History
We have no infomation on the UK box office for this movie.

* Box office information before 1997 is continually being researched by our team and can be innacurate.

North American Box Office Info
Highest Place
37
Weeks top 15
0
Total Weeks
2
Total US Gross:
$183,579
North American Box Office Chart History
Date
Place
Week
Total
22 Jun 2001
37N
$60,536
$60,536
6 Jul 2001
57N
$28,440
$183,579

* Box office information before 1997 is continually being researched by our team and can be innacurate.

Global Box Office Chart History
We have no info on the global box office for this movie

* Box office information befroe 2018 for global figures is continually being researched and hence is not complete and can be innacurate.

Global Box Office Release Breakdown
No global box office info
Box Office Standings: All-Time Top-Grossing Rankings

32684
The Lower Depths
32685
The Hidden Fortress
32686
The Bad Sleep Well

Genres
Action
Action
Adventure
Adventure
Drama
Drama
Popular in these countries
  • United States United States
  • Kuwait Kuwait
  • Singapore Singapore
  • Spain Spain
  • Poland Poland
News from around the web
‘The Hidden Fortress’: Why we’d never have ‘Star Wars’ without this 1958 Japanese classic  Upworthy Sun, 24th May 2026

Get Your Reps In: See ‘The Hidden Fortress’ for Star Wars Day  Willamette Week Tue, 28th April 2026

The film Star Wars stole from  BBC Mon, 4th January 2016

The Hidden Fortress: Three Good Men and a Princess  The Criterion Collection Tue, 18th March 2014

Toshiro Mifune @ 100: The Hidden Fortress  The Film Experience Mon, 30th March 2020

The Hidden Fortress 4K Review (2025)  The People's Movies Fri, 15th August 2025

15th May 2026
This weeks Global new movie preview 15th May 2026 - Obsession, In the Grey, Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, Deep Water, The Sheep Detectives, Mortal Kombat II, Hokum, Karuppu, The Magic Faraway Tree, Silent Friend
26th February 2026
Global Box Office Weekend Report 20th - 22nd February 2026: Pegasus 3 has an enormous Chinese release as the Lunar New Year comes round and boosts the global box office
13th February 2026
This weeks Global new movie preview 13th February 2026 - Wuthering Heights, GOAT, Crime 101, Cold Storage, Whistle, No Other Choice, Pillion, The Secret Agent, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Send Help
5th September 2025
This weeks Global new movie preview 5th September 2025 - The Conjuring: Last Rites, JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death: The Movie, Splitsville, Eden, Honey Don't!, Grand Prix of Europe, Caught Stealing, Bambi: The Reckoning, How to Train Your Dragon, On Swift Horses
29th August 2025
This weeks Global new movie preview 29th August 2025 - Caught Stealing, The Roses, The Thursday Murder Club, The Toxic Avenger, André Rieu's 2025 Maastricht Concert Waltz the Night Away, The Bad Guys 2, Materialists, The Home, Afterburn, Sketch
7th August 2025
This weeks Global new movie preview 8th August 2025 - Freakier Friday, Weapons, The Pickup, Vicious, Materialists, The Naked Gun, Guns Up, Together, Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy, Boomerang Bro Gets Grounded: The First Movie - Kalahari Waterpark Disaster
ADVERTISMENT
Footer Movie: