Toshiro Mifune swaggers ands snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed SANJURO. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, a jaded samurai 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.
PG
96 min
Akira Kurosawa