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.
Toshirō Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Keiju Kobayashi Yūzō Kayama Reiko Dan Takashi Shimura Kamatari Fujiwara Takako Irie Masao Shimizu Yūnosuke Itō Akira Kubo Hiroshi Tachikawa Yoshio Tsuchiya Kunie Tanaka Tatsuyoshi Ehara Akihiko Hirata Toranosuke Ogawa Sachio Sakai Kenzô Matsui Toshiko Higuchi Tatsuhiko Namisato Yutaka Sada Gen Shimizu Shin Ōtomo Shōichi Hirose Minoru Itō Kōji Uruki Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi Fuminori Ōhashi
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Love how Mifune is constantly crouching and lounging on the ground, exhausted by everyone’s inanity. Why pretend you have the moral high ground when there is no such thing?
The (super)heroic impropriety of a sword unable to be sheathed. Sanjuro's superpower is the knowledge that to establish a new system of law you have to violently violate the old system, but that this violence does not belong within the new system.
This is both why he succeeds (he's willing to go all the way) and why he can't stay afterward ("all the way" is "too far"). Sometimes an unsheathable sword is necessary (up against another unsheathable sword; "He was just like me..."), but it's too dangerous to keep around.
The eruption of blood here has an ethical dimension which is lost in its subsequent imitations. Sanjuro embodies this excessive bloodshed in a way that is both righteous and unacceptable.…
this film is basically just Toshirō Mifune calling everyone idiots for ninety-six minutes and I wouldn't have it any other way
#madlad Mifune
'See ya around.'
What an absolute legend. The narrative of Sanjuro is so tightly wrapped around Mifune's character that even if I wanted to, I couldn't talk separately about each aspect without putting him at the centre of attention. I admire Kurosawa's switch to a more playful style in his 60s pictures. It is natural, elegant, and refined in its simplicity. The plot of Sanjuro is a classic good vs bad guys affair, but Kurosawa furnishes it with such wit and clever narrative switchups that undoubtedly establish him as one of cinema's most amusing storytellers.
Mifune is a romp. He is charmingly unhinged and almost distractingly intelligent. He plays the bored egghead who outwits everyone without ever spending…
the perfect kind of sequel to yojimbo; funnier, bloodier, somehow shorter, yet more philosophical, mediating on the proper use of violence in a world of deceit. sanjuro himself exists on the borders of society, is able to grease the wheels of change, turn the tide of an unfair fight, but he doesn't belong among the naïve and headstrong warriors that he teaches and guides, because he possesses a true samurai ethics: avoid conflict and destruction when possible, and when impossible, only do what is necessary to protect the lives of others. he looks like a mangy dog, but acts like a man.
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One of the best sequels I've ever seen. Not sure if Toshirō Mifune is in more Kurosawa movies, but I hope so. What a legend.
The sequel to Yojimbo is another well crafted film from Akira Kurosawa, that’s further powered by the terrific characterization and performance of Toshiro Mifune. Yet another gem added into the combo’s filmography. The drama is neatly paced with amazingly detailed set pieces. Adding largely to the experience is the well written-timed humor, keeping one engaged and entertained right through. Highly recommended.
“The best sword is kept in its sheath. You'd better stay in yours.”
I think the most playful of the Kurosawa films I’ve seen, it’s the closest thing he’s made to Jackass. Sanjuro is constantly screwing people over and playing both sides. It’s pretty entertaining to watch him go about his life, doing what he wants without a strong moral agenda. While this is extremely well executed, the story didn’t draw me in quite as much as Yojimbo. Still Sanjuro is a compelling lead and it’s just an honor to see Kurosawa direct. Pretty compelling film!
Sanjuro, so far is my favourite film from Akira Kurosawa (albeit I have a-lot of his filmography still to watch). Acting as a loosely connected companion piece to Kurosawa’s earlier film Yojimbo it sees him team up once again with Toshiro Mifune extending what’s considered by many as the best director/actor partnership of all time.
Mifune stars as ‘The Samurai’ or as he’s known in this film Sanjuro Tsubaki. Carrying over his crafty, world weary persona from Yojimbo Mifune is at his charming, witty best as he commands every inch of the screen when he’s present. After meddling in the affairs of two warring gangs in Yojimbo, he finds himself sucked into a political plot to overthrow the current Chamberlain…
