Plot
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
as Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin
as Hanbei Muroto
as The Spy
as Iori Izaka
as Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
as Kurofuji
as Takebayashi
as Mutsuta's wife
as Kikui
as Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
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Reviews
This is a superb adventure story with Toshirô Mifune reprising his role from "Yojimbo" as the wandering samurai warrior. This time he arrives in a village facing some local corruption. The "Chamberlain" has been framed by the superintendent of a clan, who tries to secure his tenuous position by killing off any detractors. "Sanjûrô" decides to help protect them, and is soon drawn into the battle t…