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Writers:
Akira Kurosawa (writer)
Tsuneo Tomita (novel)
Release Date:
28 April 1974 (USA) more
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Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life. full summary | add synopsis
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Akira Kurosawa: The Masterworks Blu-ray Disc Collection
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Shows the early visual story-telling talent of Kurosawa more (15 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Denjirô Ôkôchi | ... | Shogoro Yano |
| Susumu Fujita | ... | Sanshiro Sugata |
| Yukiko Todoroki | ... | Sayo Murai |
| Ryunosuke Tsukigata | ... | Gennosuke Higaki |
| Takashi Shimura | ... | Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father |
| Ranko Hanai | ... | Osumi Kodana |
| Sugisaku Aoyama | ... | Tsunetami Iimura |
| Ichirô Sugai | ... | Police Chief Mishima |
| Yoshio Kosugi | ... | Master Saburo Kodama |
| Kokuten Kodo | ... | Buddhist Priest |
| Michisaburo Segawa | ... | Wada |
| Akitake Kôno | ... | Yoshima Dan |
| Shôji Kiyokawa | ... | Yujiro Toda |
| Kunio Mita | ... | Kohei Tsuzaki |
| Akira Nakamura | ... | Toranosuki Niiseki |
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Judo Saga
Judo Story
Kurosawa's Judo Saga
Sanshiro Sugata (USA) (informal English title)
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80 min | Japan:97 min (original version)
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Referenced in Yau doh lung fu bong (2004) more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Sugata Sanshiro (1943)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Criterion Release on the way. Dec 8 2009 | chupon |
| half an hour in and I just don't know whether to bother going on | cherold |
| I need an english translation. | curlyconnor |
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For 1942 (before the Pacific war actually started for Japan) one is struck by the modernity of technique, the adventurous way the film is visually narrated. The story is admittedly pretty creaky, but not unenjoyable. Interestingly, the evil characters are in Western clothes, whereas the wholesome good guys are salt-of-the-earth Japanese style, portending the coming war of values with the West.