Sanjuro

Sanjuro

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

1962 ja 96 minutes

Rating: 8

Plot

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.

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Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin

Tatsuya Nakadai

Tatsuya Nakadai

Hanbei Muroto

Keiju Kobayashi

Keiju Kobayashi

The Spy

Yūzō Kayama

Yūzō Kayama

Iori Izaka

Reiko Dan

Reiko Dan

Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter

Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura

Kurofuji

Kamatari Fujiwara

Kamatari Fujiwara

Takebayashi

Takako Irie

Takako Irie

Mutsuta's wife

Masao Shimizu

Masao Shimizu

Kikui

Yūnosuke Itō

Yūnosuke Itō

Mutsuta, the Chamberlain

Akira Kubo

Akira Kubo

Samurai

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Samurai

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Samurai

Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka

Samurai

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Samurai

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata

Samurai

Toranosuke Ogawa

Toranosuke Ogawa

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai

Samurai

Kenzô Matsui

Kenzô Matsui

Samurai

Toshiko Higuchi

Toshiko Higuchi

Maid Koyso

Tatsuhiko Namisato

Tatsuhiko Namisato

Samurai

Yutaka Sada

Yutaka Sada

Murota samurai

Gen Shimizu

Gen Shimizu

Shin Ōtomo

Shin Ōtomo

Shōichi Hirose

Shōichi Hirose

Minoru Itō

Minoru Itō

Kōji Uruki

Kōji Uruki

Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

Fuminori Ōhashi

Fuminori Ōhashi

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