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You cut well, but the best sword stays in its sheath! - Sanjuro
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Title: Sanjuro

Release Date: 1 Jan 1962

Runtime: 1h 36m

Genre: Drama, Action, Comedy

Director: TOHO

Production Companies: TOHO

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.943 (614 votes)

Cast

  • Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin: Toshirō Mifune
  • Hanbei Muroto: Tatsuya Nakadai
  • The Spy: Keiju Kobayashi
  • Iori Izaka: Yūzō Kayama
  • Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter: Reiko Dan
  • Kurofuji: Takashi Shimura
  • Takebayashi: Kamatari Fujiwara
  • Mutsuta's wife: Takako Irie
  • Kikui: Masao Shimizu
  • Mutsuta, the Chamberlain: Yūnosuke Itō
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