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
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
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
Cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune
- Tsubaki Sanjuro
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Hanbei Muroto
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Kimura, the spy
- Yuzo Kayama
- Iori Izaka
- Reiko Dan
- Chidori
- Takashi Shimura
- Kurofuji
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Takebayashi
- Takako Irie
- Mutsuta’s wife
- Masao Shimizu
- Kikui
- Yunosuke Ito
- Mutsuta
- Akira Kubo
- Elder Morishima
- Hiroshi Tachikawa
- Kawahara
- Yoshio Tsuchiya
- Hirose
- Kunie Tanaka
- Yasukawa
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara
- Sekiguchi
- Akihiko Hirata
- Terada
- Kenzo Matsui
- Yata
- Tatsuhiko Hari
- Younger Morishima
- Toranosuke Ogawa
- Sandayu
Credits
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Produced by
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Produced by
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Screenplay by
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Screenplay by
- Hideo Oguni
- Screenplay by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Based on the novel Peaceful Days by
- Shugoro Yamamoto
- Cinematography by
- Fukuzo Koizumi
- Cinematography by
- Takao Saito
- Production design by
- Yoshiro Muraki
- Lighting by
- Ichiro Inohara
- Sound by
- Wataru Konuma
- Music by
- Masaru Sato
- Swordplay instructor
- Ryu Kuze
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A scene from Sanjuro
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