“You cut well, but the best sword stays in its sheath!”
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
Akira Kurosawa
Ryuzo Kikushima
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Akira Kurosawa
Ryuzo Kikushima
Hideo Oguni
Fukuzo Koizumi
Masaru Satō
Toshirō Mifune
Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin
Tatsuya Nakadai
Hanbei Muroto
Keiju Kobayashi
The Spy
Yūzō Kayama
Iori Izaka
Reiko Dan
Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
Takashi Shimura
Kurofuji
Kamatari Fujiwara
Takebayashi
Takako Irie
Mutsuta's wife
Masao Shimizu
Kikui
Yūnosuke Itō
Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
Akira Kubo
Samurai
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Samurai
... and 17 more
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This is a superb adventure story with Toshirô Mifune reprising his role from "Yojimbo" as the wandering samurai warrior. This time he arrives in a village facing some local corruption. The "Chamberlain" has been framed by the superintendent of a clan, who tries to secure his tenuous position by kill...
Sanjuro (1962) Original Trailer [4K]
Trailer • YouTube
Tatsuya Nakadai on Shooting SANJURO
Featurette • YouTube
Tatsuya Nakadai on SANJURO
Featurette • YouTube
SANJURO Trailer (1962) - The Criterion Collection
Teaser • YouTube
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