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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.
Keywords
japan
samurai
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jidaigeki
edo period
feudal japan
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Casts

Toshirō Mifune
Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin

Tatsuya Nakadai
Hanbei Muroto

Keiju Kobayashi
The Spy

Yūzō Kayama
Iori Izaka

Reiko Dan
Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter

Takashi Shimura
Kurofuji

Kamatari Fujiwara
Takebayashi

Takako Irie
Mutsuta's wife

Masao Shimizu
Kikui

Yūnosuke Itō
Mutsuta, the Chamberlain

Akira Kubo
Samurai

Hiroshi Tachikawa
Samurai

Yoshio Tsuchiya
Samurai

Kunie Tanaka
Samurai

Tatsuyoshi Ehara
Samurai

Akihiko Hirata
Samurai
Toranosuke Ogawa

Sachio Sakai
Samurai
Kenzô Matsui
Samurai
Toshiko Higuchi
Maid Koyso
Tatsuhiko Namisato
Samurai

Yutaka Sada
Murota samurai

Gen Shimizu

Shin Ōtomo

Shōichi Hirose
Minoru Itō
Kōji Uruki
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

Fuminori Ōhashi
Crews

Shūgorō Yamamoto
Novel

Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Fukuzo Koizumi
Director of Photography
Takao Saitō
Director of Photography

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer

Akira Kurosawa
Director

Ryūzō Kikushima
Screenplay

Hideo Oguni
Screenplay

Akira Kurosawa
Editor

Masanobu Deme
Assistant Director

Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design
Shoji Jinbo
Set Decoration

Teruyo Nogami
Script Supervisor
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Recordist
Wataru Konuma
Sound Recordist

Ryūzō Kikushima
Producer

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
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