Sanjuro
– Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull..
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.
07 May 1963
Japanese
Akira Kurosawa
Ryûzô Kikushima (screenplay), Hideo Oguni (screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (screenplay), Shûgorô Yamamoto (novel)
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama
A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.
1 win.
Criterion Collection