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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.

Akira Kurosawa, 1963
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Keiju Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai

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  1. The irony of a Kurosawa film, especially this one, is that it yearns to promote a more verdant, peaceful, and less warlike world. Most of his films were written as antitheses to the horrors of armed conflict (e.g. here Sanjuro doesn't want to fight Muroto). Unfortunately, the only tangible influence it has is "inspiring" future film makers into making violent films such as this. Sort of a tragedy if one thinks about it.

  2. Tatsuya Nakadai (Harakiri) and Toshiro Mifune (Yojimbo, Seven Samurai) – Two of the greatest Japanese actors to ever live, face off in a spectacular fashion

  3. Sanjuro's last word "Abayo" implies "Good luck, cheeky cubs. We may well never meet again" rather than just "See you around".

  4. Tsubaki Sanjuro. The ultimate in classic Japanese cinema and inspired all your Clint Eastwood classics & Italian westerns.
    and Tatsuya Nakadai deserves as much praise as Toshiro Mifune. Different styles & roles, but just as much. Dai Bosatsu Toge, Sword of Doom. But I assume everyone here has seen that as well 🤷‍♂️

  5. It's so hard to see what they even do, they move so quickly. I can't help but imagine how deadly real life samurai and knights–who'd trained since childhood to use weapons–would've been.

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