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.
15 January 1905, Tokyo, Japan
26 December 1927, Kyogo, South Korea
5 October 1908, Toyko, Japan
23 November 1923, Gunma, Japan
1 December 1936, Tokyo, Japan
26 March 1935, Kyoto City, Japan
25 February 1915, North Korea
13 December 1932, Tokyo, Japan
12 March 1905, Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan
18 May 1927, Yamanashi, Japan
23 July 1918
April 20, 2011
The relative linearity of the film can't help but come as something of a disappointment after the feast of Yojimbo.May 28, 2009
a textbook on widescreen composition.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 filmJuly 23, 2006
Mifune's smashing performance is the force that makes it all work so well.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.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.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.'March 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
This is fun but, compared with Kurosawa's other 60s efforts, relatively slight.February 05, 2007
For escapist fare, this ranks highly