

Sanjuro
1962 Directed by Akira KurosawaToshiro 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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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
Director
...........................................................Akira Kurosawa
Producer
...........................................................Ryuzo Kikushima
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Assistant Director
...........................................................Masanobu Deme
Novel
...........................................................Shūgorō Yamamoto
Screenplay
...........................................................Akira Kurosawa
Director of Photography
...........................................................Fukuzo Koizumi
Production Companies
...................................................TOHO
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Drama
Action
Comedy
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