Sanjuro

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro 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.

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  Toshirō Mifune

  Sanjûrô Tsubaki / The ronin
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  Tatsuya Nakadai

  Hanbei Muroto
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  Keiju Kobayashi

  The Spy
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  Yūzō Kayama

  Iori Izaka
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  Reiko Dan

  Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
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  Takashi Shimura

  Kurofuji
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  Kamatari Fujiwara

  Takebayashi
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  Takako Irie

  Mutsuta's wife
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  Masao Shimizu

  Kikui
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  Yūnosuke Itō

  Mutsuta, the Chamberlain