Country: Japan
Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama
Synopsis: Toshiro Mifune swaggers and
snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa’s tightly paced,
beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece 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. Less brazen in tone than its
predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character’s return is
a masterpiece in its own right.
