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1962 Japanese jidaigeki film by Akira Kurosawa

This article is about the film.

Yojimbo (1961) – Movie Musings

For the character, see Samurai cinema § Sanjuro/Ronin with no name.

Sanjuro (Japanese: 椿三十郎, Hepburn: Tsubaki Sanjūrō) is a 1962 Japanesejidaigeki film directed, co-written and edited by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo.^[2]

Originally an adaptation of the Shūgorō Yamamoto novel Hibi Heian, the script was altered following the success of the previous year's Yojimbo to incorporate the lead character of that film.

Plot

Nine young samurai believe that the lord chamberlain, Mutsuta, is corrupt after he tore up their petition against fraud at court. One of them tells the superintendent Kikui of this and he agrees to intervene. As the nine meet secretly to discuss this at a shrine, a rōnin overhears and cautions them against trusting the superintendent.

While at first they do not believe him, he saves them from an a Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo - MoMA BAKI