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Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece 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. Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character's return is a masterpiece in its own right.
Original Release
01/01/1962
US Release
05/07/1963
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The Samurai / The ronin |
Tatsuya Nakadai | Hanbei Muroto |
Keiju Kobayashi | The Spy |
Yûzô Kayama | Iori Izaka |
Reiko Dan | Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter |
Takashi Shimura | Kurofuji |
Kamatari Fujiwara | Takebayashi |
Takako Irie | Mutsuta's wife |
Masao Shimizu | Kikui |
Yunosuke Ito | Mutsuta, the Chamberlain |
Directors
Writers
Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa, Shûgorô Yamamoto
Cast
Name | Character |
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Toshirô Mifune | Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The Samurai / The ronin |
Tatsuya Nakadai | Hanbei Muroto |
Keiju Kobayashi | The Spy |
Yûzô Kayama | Iori Izaka |
Reiko Dan | Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter |
Takashi Shimura | Kurofuji |
Kamatari Fujiwara | Takebayashi |
Takako Irie | Mutsuta's wife |
Masao Shimizu | Kikui |
Yunosuke Ito | Mutsuta, the Chamberlain |
Akira Kubo | Samurai |
Hiroshi Tachikawa | Samurai |
Yoshio Tsuchiya | Samurai |
Kunie Tanaka | Samurai |
Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Samurai |
Akihiko Hirata | Samurai |
Toranosuke Ogawa | Sandayu |
Sachio Sakai | Samurai / Foot soldier |
Kenzô Matsui | Samurai |
Toshiko Higuchi | Chamber maid / Maid Koyso |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ryûzô Kikushima | Producer |
Tomoyuki Tanaka | Producer |