Sanjuro

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

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

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