Film196296 min

Sanjuro

Name: Sanjuro
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1962
Duration: 96 min
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Reiko Dan

Taste attributes: actioncomedydramathrillerfastimaginarylinearbig & variedemotionally undemandingcomplex relationshipinjustice/tragedy/vengeancerescue/escape/jeopardyunderdog triumphs

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"Akira Kurosawa's Powerful and Newest Japanese Masterpiece"

Boxlist takeVery fast and heightened: a comedy-drama that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Taste details

Pace: very fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

8.0 /10

TMDB · 382 votes

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Wholesomeness: Balanced wholesomeness, just how this profile likes it
Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it

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Pace: Fast, where this profile leans slow
Emotional punch: Undemanding, where this profile leans emotive / stirring

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Synopsis

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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