
Sanjuro
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.
Top Billed 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
Featured Crew

Akira Kurosawa
Director

Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay

Ryūzō Kikushima
Screenplay

Shūgorō Yamamoto
Novel

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Fukuzo Koizumi
Director of Photography
Takao Saitō
Director of Photography

Akira Kurosawa
Editor

Hideo Oguni
Screenplay
Shoji Jinbo
Set Decoration

Yoshirō Muraki
Production Design

Teruyo Nogami
Script Supervisor