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Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro might disappoint you if you are expecting a movie on the order of his Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, or even perhaps Yojimbo...
...Sanjuro lacks the organic character of Kurosawa's best movies. The violence and the comedy are disproportionate to the story, and are never quite integrated in it. This is not to say that Sanjuro is a bad movie. It isn't. But it belongs to a lighter level of entertainment than Rashomon or Seven Samurai. The story-line itself has no less potential that that of Seven Samurai; but here Kurosawa has chosen to keep it exaggerated and farcical rather than to develop it in depth...
...Idiot and Sanjuro. These two films by Japan's Akira Kurosawa are not in a class with his Rashomon or Yojimbo. But Kurosawa's genius can make a miss almost as good as a masterpiece...
...Idiot and Sanjuro. These two films by Japan's Akira Kurosawa are not in a class with his Rashomon or Yojimbo. But Kurosawa's genius can make a miss almost as good as a masterpiece...
...Sanjuro, a sequel to Yojimbo, was made to make money, and it did. But in titillating the mass audience, Kurosawa evidently bored himself. In Yojimbo, he had an urgent idea: man is a beast and the world is better off without him. In Sanjuro, he confesses, "I had very little to say." He says it with impressive skill. Moviegoers who missed Yojimbo will assuredly find Sanjuro a bloody good show...