Sanjuro

椿三十郎

1962·96'

★ 8.0

Letterboxd TMDB #11712

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.

Cast

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

Takako Irie Mutsuta's wife

Masao Shimizu Kikui

Yūnosuke Itō Mutsuta, the Chamberlain

Akira Kubo Samurai

Hiroshi Tachikawa Samurai