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Release Date:
7 May 1963 (USA)
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Plot:
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win
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(2 articles)
Akira Kurosawa: The Masterworks Blu-ray Disc Collection
(From Affenheimtheater. 19 June 2009, 10:27 AM, PDT)
DVD Review: Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (Criterion Collection)
(From Rope Of Silicon. 17 March 2009, 3:23 AM, PDT)
(From Affenheimtheater. 19 June 2009, 10:27 AM, PDT)
DVD Review: Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (Criterion Collection)
(From Rope Of Silicon. 17 March 2009, 3:23 AM, PDT)
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A fun movie
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The Samurai | |
| Tatsuya Nakadai | ... | Hanbei Muroto | |
| Keiju Kobayashi | ... | The Spy | |
| Yûzô Kayama | ... | Iori Izaka | |
| Reiko Dan | ... | Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter | |
| Akihiko Hirata | ... | Samurai | |
| Takashi Shimura | ... | Kurofuji | |
| Kamatari Fujiwara | ... | Takebayashi | |
| Takako Irie | ... | Mutsuta's wife | |
| Masao Shimizu | ... | Kikui | |
| Yûnosuke Itô | ... | Mutsuta, the Chamberlain | |
| Akira Kubo | ... | Samurai | |
| Kenzo Matsui | ... | Samurai | |
| Hiroshi Tachikawa | ... | Samurai | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya | ... | Samurai |
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Also Known As:
Sanjuro (USA)
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96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Singapore:PG |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:12 |
UK:12 |
UK:PG (re-rating) (2002) |
UK:A (original rating) |
West Germany:12 |
USA:PG-13
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This movie was originally going to be a faithful adaption of a Shugoro Yamamoto novel called Peaceful Days, and was going to be made before Yojimbo, which is about a group of nine samurai who are helped out by two ronin who are inadequate fighters and have to use there wits to trick two evil opposing sides into disposing of each other. The antagonists was changed to a corrupt government body and the tricking two opposing sides into fighting each over element was used for Yojimbo. After Yojimbo was a success Toho requested that Kurosawa produce a sequel. He changed the two weak ronin to the powerful Sanjuro character and rewrote the script to match the tone of Yojimbo. Also when this was going to be Peaceful Days, Kurosawa was only going to write it and 'Horikawa Hiromichi' (Kurosawa's assistant director) was going to direct it and Frankie Sakai and Keiju Kobayashi were to play the two ronin.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the Chamberlain's nephew goes to peek over the wall to check if Kikui's house is full of troops, he supports himself on the wall which bends slightly, belying its supposed sturdiness.
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Sanjûrô Tsubaki:
He was exactly like me. A naked sword. He didn't stay in his sheath.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences (2006) (V)
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As a sequel to Yojimbo, it doesn't have quite the tense and biting satire as the first movie, but it's still entertaining fun as Mifune's character causes havoc and mayhem among the baddies.
The incessant stupidness of the young samurai did become a tiny tad bit grating after a while as they seemed incapable of learning ANYTHING new. And you could see Mifune's character constantly thinking to himself, "Geez, these dummies are DUMB!" as their stupidness would cause one problem after another.
I sure wish Kurosawa could have made 2 or 3 more movies with this particular character of Mifune's. Kurosawa used Mifune in other movies and Mifune did a fine job, but i like this character of Yojimbo/Sanjuro best of them all as the samurai character is so grungy and cranky all the time without the slightest touch of prettyboyness and always teaches the baddies the errors of their ways in a way they won't soon forget...