Sanjuro

“You cut well, but the best sword stays in its sheath!”

8.0(705)19621h 36m

DramaActionComedy

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.

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Where to watch

Stream

Rent

Buy

Streaming data by JustWatch

Cast

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

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

2y ago

7.0

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 th...