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Sanjuro (1962)

Name: Sanjuro
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: drama film, war film
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 8

Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Cut by Akira Kurosawa · Music by Masaru Sato · 96 min

How it was made

The story began as a straight adaptation of Shūgorō Yamamoto's Peaceful Days, but Kurosawa reworked the script into a sequel to Yojimbo after the studio wanted to bring back its popular antihero.
The ronin again names himself after a nearby plant rather than a real clan, choosing a camellia (Tsubaki) this time instead of Yojimbo's mulberry, continuing Kurosawa's populist take on the samurai figure.
The climactic duel ends with an exaggerated spray of blood from Hanbei's body; Kurosawa said in a 1980 interview that the graphic effect, unusual for the period, was an intentional experiment rather than a mechanical accident, despite claims to the contrary.

Behind the scenes

Sanjuro (1962): The Greatest Sequel of all Time — Bushido Blues · 19 min

Elsewhere

More by Akira Kurosawa

Horse — 1940
Sanshiro Sugata — 1943
The Most Beautiful — 1944
Sanshiro Sugata Part II — 1945
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail — 1945
No Regrets for Our Youth — 1946
Those Who Make Tomorrow — 1946
One Wonderful Sunday — 1947
Drunken Angel — 1948
The Quiet Duel — 1949
Stray Dog — 1949
Rashomon — 1950
Scandal — 1950
The Idiot — 1951
Ikiru — 1952
Seven Samurai — 1954
I Live in Fear — 1955
Throne of Blood — 1957
The Lower Depths — 1957
The Hidden Fortress — 1958
The Bad Sleep Well — 1960
Yojimbo — 1961
High and Low — 1963
Red Beard — 1965
Dodes'ka-den — 1970
Dersu Uzala — 1976
Kagemusha — 1980
Ran — 1985
Dreams — 1990
Rhapsody in August — 1991

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