Snow Trail (Japanese: 銀嶺の果て, Hepburn: Ginrei no Hate) is a 1947 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi from a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa.

[2] It was the first film role for Toshirō Mifune,[3][2] 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.