Zoku Sugata Sanshirô

19451945
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1h 23m

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6.0/10

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Susumu Fujita in Zoku Sugata Sanshirô (1945)

Action Adventure Drama

Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.Sugata returns to prove his judo mastery in a match against Western opponents.

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

2.4K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

68,508

10,162

Director
- Akira Kurosawa
Writers
- Tsuneo Tomita(novel)
- Akira Kurosawa
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The final fight scene was filmed outdoors in real snow. Susumu Fujita, fighting barefoot, had to be carried to a bonfire between each shot as his feet would go numb.

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Follows Sugata Sanshirô (1943)

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A great disappointment

I searched for this film for many years after having seen and loved the original. After living in Japan for a while I came across a Japanese language version.

This movie was a great disappointment to me and I'm sorry to say that Donald Ritchie's observation that Akira did not seem to take this project seriously seems to hold true. It has none of the visual or dramatic impact of the first Sanshiro film leaving only a standard Japanese propaganda film with little in the way of new scenarios,characterization or concepts.

Unfortunately, even for fans like myself of Kurosawa this film is hardly worth watching.

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