Sanjuro poster
Director Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa, Ryūzō Kikushima, Hideo Oguni

Sanjuro

Original Title: 椿三十郎

Tagline: You cut well, but the best sword stays in its sheath!

Release Date: 1962-01-01

Duration: 96 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Toshirō Mifune
    Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin
  • Kunie Tanaka
    Samurai
  • Kamatari Fujiwara
    Takebayashi
  • Tatsuya Nakadai
    Hanbei Muroto
  • Yūzō Kayama
    Iori Izaka
  • Gen Shimizu
  • Yūnosuke Itō
    Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
  • Reiko Dan
    Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
  • Toranosuke Ogawa
  • Takako Irie
    Mutsuta's wife