
Rating: 7.5 stars
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Seen on: 06/20/2011
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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.
Rated NR | Length 96 minutes
Toshirō Mifune | Takashi Shimura | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Akira Kubo | Akihiko Hirata | Hiroshi Tachikawa | Yûzô Kayama | Tatsuya Nakadai | Keiju Kobayashi | Kamatari Fujiwara | Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Kunie Tanaka | Sachio Sakai | Yûnosuke Itô | Masao Shimizu | Reiko Dan | Yutaka Sada | Takako Irie | Toranosuke Ogawa | Toshiko Higuchi | Shôichi Hirose | Fuminori Ôhashi | Shin Ôtomo | Minoru Itô | Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi | Gen Shimizu | Kôji Uruki | Kenzô Matsui | Tatsuhiko Namisato
Kurosawa’s sequel to Yojimbo, once again starring Toshiro Mifune, isn’t as strong as the first movie, but still highly entertaining. In fact, I think Sanjuro has more comedic elements to it than Yojimbo did. The story just isn’t as strong.
Near the end is an epic scene of violence that underscores a point made earlier in the film. It had to be fairly shocking to audiences of the time, at least in Japan, if not overseas.
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