 In 1939, Kajirō Yamamoto filmed "Chushingura" in two parts with his then assistant director Akira Kurosawa.The two parts were titled "Chushingura (Go)" (1939) and "Chushingura (Zen)" (1939).In 1941 the Japanese military commissioned director Kenji Mizoguchi ("Ugetsu") to make "The 47 Ronin".