Sanjuro [Sub: Eng]
In this movie, crafty jaded samurai Sanjuro helps a young man and his fellow clansmen weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
5 October 1908, Toyko, Japan
10 January 1915, Ehime, Japan
13 December 1932, Tokyo, Japan
30 March 1911, Tokyo, Japan
12 March 1905, Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
26 December 1927, Kyogo, South Korea
3 August 1919, Tokyo, Japan
25 February 1915, North Korea
15 January 1905, Tokyo, Japan
13 March 1928, Chiba, Japan
13 February 1929, Tokyo, Japan
1 April 1920, Tsingtao, China [now Qingdao, Shandong, China]
23 November 1923, Gunma, Japan
7 February 1911, Tokyo, Japan
7 March 1931, Japan
23 November 1932, Gifu, Japan
23 July 1918
26 March 1935, Kyoto City, Japan
13 April 1919, Akita, Japan
1 December 1936, Tokyo, Japan
26 March 1937, Tokyo, Japan
11 April 1937, Kanagawa, Japan
18 May 1927, Yamanashi, Japan
May 28, 2009
a textbook on widescreen composition.March 26, 2009
The charm of this fascinating Toho production, stylishly directed by Akira Kurosawa, is the personality of the hero, powerfully played by Toshiro Mifune.August 07, 2012
Satirical Samurai action of the highest order.February 05, 2007
For escapist fare, this ranks highlyApril 20, 2011
The relative linearity of the film can't help but come as something of a disappointment after the feast of Yojimbo.August 07, 2012
This is fun but, compared with Kurosawa's other 60s efforts, relatively slight.June 24, 2006
Kurosawa was pressured by his producers into directing this sequel to Yojimbo, and rose to the occasion by making his funniest and least overtly didactic filmMarch 28, 2010
Rather than simply repeating the successful formula of Yojimbo, which incorporated humor but largely played it straight, Sanjuro flips the script for a largely comic action picture punctuated by a dark, rug-yanking conclusion. [Blu-ray]October 01, 2003
Mifune's disheveled samurai is an almost cartoonlike send-up of the established samurai image.August 07, 2012
Technically, the film is one of Kurosawa's most impressive, featuring some superbly staged sword battles and exceptional use of complex widescreen compositions.July 23, 2006
Mifune's smashing performance is the force that makes it all work so well.May 20, 2003
A surprising, fetching, beautifully made film that fitly propounds the lesson of his own professionalism: 'Never send a boy to do a man's work.'