Sanjuro

Jan 1, 1962

1h 36m

★ 8.0

You cut well, but the best sword stays in its sheath!

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Action

Comedy

Production Companies

TOHO

Sanjuro Trailers

Cast

Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin

Toshirō Mifune

Hanbei Muroto

Tatsuya Nakadai

The Spy

Keiju Kobayashi

Iori Izaka

Yūzō Kayama

Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter

Reiko Dan

Kurofuji

Takashi Shimura

Takebayashi

Kamatari Fujiwara

Mutsuta's wife

Takako Irie

Kikui

Masao Shimizu

Mutsuta, the Chamberlain

Yūnosuke Itō

Samurai

Akira Kubo

Samurai

Hiroshi Tachikawa

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