Fresh
This is fun but, compared with Kurosawa's other 60s efforts, relatively slight.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Sanjuro
You cut well, but the best sword stays in its sheath!
1962 · 1h 36m · Not Rated
Action, Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
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Sanjuro
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Akira Kurosawa Director
- Toshirō Mifune as Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Hanbei Muroto
- Keiju Kobayashi as The Spy
- Yūzō Kayama as Iori Izaka
- Reiko Dan as Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
- Takashi Shimura as Kurofuji
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Takebayashi
- Takako Irie as Mutsuta's wife
- Masao Shimizu as Kikui
- Yūnosuke Itō as Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The charm of this fascinating Toho production, stylishly directed by Akira Kurosawa, is the personality of the hero, powerfully played by Toshiro Mifune.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
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.'
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
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 film
Time Out
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