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Sanjuro (1962)

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

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.

Release: 1962-01-01
Runtime: 96 min
Rating: 7.958 / 10

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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