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Sanjuro (1962)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
“You cut well, but the best sword stays in its sheath!”
Drama, Action, Comedy · 1h 36m
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.
Cast
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
Crew
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
- Novel
- Shūgorō Yamamoto
- Director of Photography
- Fukuzo Koizumi, Takao Saitō
- Original Music Composer
- Masaru Satō
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ryuzo Kikushima
Details
- Original title
- 椿三十郎
- Release date
- 1962-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama, Action, Comedy
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO