Sanjuro

Sanjuro

96 mins | Drama, Comedy, Action | Jan. 1, 1962

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.

Sanjuro

96 mins | Drama, Comedy, Action | Jan. 1, 1962

Sanjuro
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.
IMDb rating 8.0
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 椿三十郎
Directors Masanobu Deme, Teruyo Nogami, Akira Kurosawa
Writers Shûgorô Yamamoto, Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

as Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin

Tatsuya Nakadai

as Hanbei Muroto

Keiju Kobayashi

as The Spy

Yûzô Kayama

as Iori Izaka

Reiko Dan

as Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter

Takashi Shimura

as Kurofuji

Kamatari Fujiwara

as Takebayashi

Takako Irie

as Mutsuta's wife

Masao Shimizu

as Kikui

Yūnosuke Itō

as Mutsuta, the Chamberlain

Akira Kubo

as Samurai

Hiroshi Tachikawa

as Samurai

Yoshio Tsuchiya

as Samurai

Kunie Tanaka

as Samurai

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

as Samurai

Akihiko Hirata

as Samurai

Sachio Sakai

as Samurai

Kenzô Matsui

as Samurai

Toshiko Higuchi

as Maid Koyso

Tatsuhiko Namisato

as Samurai

Yutaka Sada

as Murota samurai