Nine young samurai are worried about corruption in the leadership of their clan. They believe that the lord chamberlain, Mutsuta, is corrupt after tearing up a petition against organised crime. As they meet secretly at a temple and discuss their problem, a ronin emerges from another room where he had been resting. The ronin had overheard their plans, and suggests that the superintendent is in fact the real corrupt official. So now, a group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.
Sanjuro is a companion piece to Yojimbo (1961) and continues the story of the wandering ronin Sanjuro, once again played by Toshiro Mifune. It's a stand-alone film, but Toshiro plays the same care-free but skilled and good-natured samurai who this time has to help a group of warriors save their master. You can tell director Akira Kurosawa had a lot of fun with Mifune's character, making him a man who can do as he pleases as the other samurai and their enemies fights all around him, almost making him seem like a father overseeing a playground.
Genre: Action/Crime/Comedy
Sanjuro is a companion piece to Yojimbo (1961) and continues the story of the wandering ronin Sanjuro, once again played by Toshiro Mifune. It's a stand-alone film, but Toshiro plays the same care-free but skilled and good-natured samurai who this time has to help a group of warriors save their master. You can tell director Akira Kurosawa had a lot of fun with Mifune's character, making him a man who can do as he pleases as the other samurai and their enemies fights all around him, almost making him seem like a father overseeing a playground.
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