Toshiro Mifune stars in this Kurosawa-directed classic set in late-Edo era Japan. Mifune's performance as a wandering ronin who commits...
Toshiro Mifune stars in this Kurosawa-directed classic set in late-Edo era Japan. Mifune's performance as a wandering ronin who commits to ridding a terror-stricken town of corruption garnered him two Best Actor awards at the 1961 Venice Film Festival.
A nameless samurai with no master (Mifune) enters a small village where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon (Kamatari Fujiwara) and sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura) to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Remade twice, by Sergio Leone (A Fistful of Dollars) and Walter Hill (Last Man Standing).
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- Award winner
- Winner of both the New Cinema Award and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (Mifune), Venice Film Festival 1961.
- Rating
- PG, Occasional low level violence
- Runtime
- 110
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Japan