Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece 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. Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character's return is a masterpiece in its own right.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects (DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, featuring Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai, production designer Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami
- Theatrical teaser and trailer
- Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Michael Sragow and comments from Kurosawa and his cast and crew
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Collector's Sets
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects (DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- A 35-minute documentary on the making of Sanjuro, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, featuring Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai, production designer Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami
- Theatrical teaser and trailer
- Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Michael Sragow and comments from Kurosawa and his cast and crew
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune
- Sanjuro
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Hanbei Moroto
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Kimura the Spy
- Yuzo Kayama
- Iiro Izaka
- Reiko Dan
- Chidori
- Takashi Shimura
- Kurofuji
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Takebayashi
- Takako Irie
- Mutsuta’s wife
- Yunosuke Ito
- Mutsuta
- Masao Shimizu
- Kikui
Credits
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Producer
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Screenplay
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Hideo Oguni
- From the novel by
- Shugoro Yamamoto
- Cinematography
- Fukuzo Koizumi
- Cinematography
- Takao Saito
- Production design
- Yoshiro Muraki
- Music
- Masaru Sato