Sanjuro

Japan, 1962

Film
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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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Credits

producer

Ryūzō Kikushima

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Duration

01:36:00

Production places
Japan
Production dates
1962

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-11712

Language

Japanese

Subject categories

Action

Comedy

Drama

TMDB-Movie

11712

Wikidata

Q575014

Collected

96 times

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