
96 minutes
1/1/1962
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.

Toshirō Mifune
as Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin

Tatsuya Nakadai
as Hanbei Muroto

Keiju Kobayashi
as The Spy

Yūzō Kayama
as Iori Izaka

Reiko Dan
as Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter

Takashi Shimura
as Kurofuji

Kamatari Fujiwara
as Takebayashi

Takako Irie
as Mutsuta's wife

Masao Shimizu
as Kikui

Yūnosuke Itō
as Mutsuta, the Chamberlain

Akira Kubo
as Samurai
Hiroshi Tachikawa
as Samurai

Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Samurai

Kunie Tanaka
as Samurai

Tatsuyoshi Ehara
as Samurai

Akihiko Hirata
as Samurai

Toranosuke Ogawa

Sachio Sakai
as Samurai
Kenzô Matsui
as Samurai
Toshiko Higuchi
as Maid Koyso
Tatsuhiko Namisato
as Samurai

Yutaka Sada
as Murota samurai

Gen Shimizu

Shin Ōtomo

Shōichi Hirose
Minoru Itō
Kōji Uruki
Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

Fuminori Ōhashi