Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- japan
- samurai
- corruption
- temple
- fighter
- black and white
- jidaigeki
- edo period
- feudal japan
- bakumatsu
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Masao Shimizu — Kikui
- Yūnosuke Itō — Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
- Akira Kubo — Samurai
- Hiroshi Tachikawa — Samurai
- Yoshio Tsuchiya — Samurai
- Kunie Tanaka — Samurai
- Tatsuyoshi Ehara — Samurai
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima
Production
- Studio
- TOHO
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1961Yojimbo
Where it starts.
Sanjuro
1962 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
