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7 May 1963 (USA) morePlot:
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
1 win moreNewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Akira Kurosawa: The Masterworks Blu-ray Disc Collection (From Affenheimtheater. 19 June 2009, 10:27 AM, PDT)
DVD Review: Akira Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (Criterion Collection)
(From Rope Of Silicon. 17 March 2009, 3:23 AM, PDT)
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One of Kurosawa's most polished movies moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The Samurai | |
| Tatsuya Nakadai | ... | Hanbei Muroto | |
| Keiju Kobayashi | ... | The Spy | |
| Yuzo Kayama | ... | Iori Izaka | |
| Reiko Dan | ... | Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter | |
| Akihiko Hirata | ... | Samurai | |
| Takashi Shimura | ... | Kurofuji | |
| Kamatari Fujiwara | ... | Takebayashi | |
| Takako Irie | ... | Mutsuta's wife | |
| Masao Shimizu | ... | Kikui | |
| Yûnosuke Itô | ... | Mutsuta, the Chamberlain | |
| Akira Kubo | ... | Samurai | |
| Kenzo Matsui | ... | Samurai | |
| Hiroshi Tachikawa | ... | Samurai | |
| Yoshio Tsuchiya | ... | Samurai |
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96 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Perspecta Sound encoding) (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:12 | UK:12 | UK:PG (re-rating) (2002) | UK:A (original rating) | West Germany:12 | USA:PG-13Fun Stuff
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For the "explosion of blood" in the final duel, chocolate syrup was mixed with carbonated water and put under 30 pounds of pressure. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the Chamberlain's nephew goes to peek over the wall to check if Kikui's house is full of troops, he supports himself on the wall which bends slightly, belying its supposed sturdiness. moreQuotes:
Mutsuta's wife: You're too sharp. That's your trouble. You're like a drawn sword. Sharp, naked without a sheath. You cut well. But good swords are kept in their sheaths. moreFAQ
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Tsubaki Sanjuro is, unfortunately, not so widely seen abroad (= outside Japan) as Yojinbo, probably because it was not copied as a western. In Japan, however, Tsubaki Sanjuro is not less popular than Yojinbo. Not a few Japanese actually prefer the former to the latter, and it's easy to see why: It is stylistically more polished and smarter than Yojimbo and Mifune is 'cooler' as well - he shows a brilliant leadership and every Mifune fan would be really delighted to see how his young, naive disciples run after him like chicks following the mother duck.
And while Yojinbo's female main character, Orin, is an evil and crafty woman, Lady Mutsuta in Tsubaki Sanjuro is 'irritatingly light-hearted'. But she has a deep insight into Sanjuro's personality and understands him far better than his male disciples. An excellent character, and, in fact, she is the only person in Tsubaki Sanjuro AND Yojinbo to whom Sanjuro/Mifune speaks in a polite form (in Japanese).
Tsubaki Sanjuro is, so to speak, a 'concentrate' of Kurosawa's cinematography and one sees in it every aspect of his greatness in a very compact form. Therefore no one could remake this movie.