Sanshiro Sugata

Sanshiro Sugata is a 1943 film made in World War 2,Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

## Plot

In the year 1882 (Meiji 15), a young man who came to Tokyo from Aizu with the aim of becoming a Jiu-Jitsu , Suguru Sanshiro, was introduced to the Shinmei-Katsuryu era led by Saburo Kadoma. However, on this day, Monma and his team were planning the darkness of Shogoro Yano, a Shudokan judo . Kadoma was mad at Shudokan Judo, which has been struggling for the role of the Metropolitan Police Department 's martial arts instruction in recent years . However, despite the attack by a large number of people, only one Yano annihilated the Shinmei-Katsura. Astonished, Sanshiro immediately volunteered to become a disciple in Yano.

Eventually, the days passed, and Sanshiro grew up to be the strongest judo artist in the Shudōkan area, but he was an uncontrollable violent boy who started fighting in a skirmish once he entered the town. Yano, the master of Sanshiro, said, "I don't understand the human path." The repulsed Sanshiro recites a dying diving in a pond in the garden to show his spirit, but Yano doesn't fight. Sanshiro, whose siblings were worried , witnessed the beauty of the full moon and the lotus flower blooming in the mud pond as he looked from the freezing pond , and as a judo artist, he realized his true strength as a human being. He knew something.

One day , a strangely murderous man like a snake visited a dojo. Ryoshin Jinjutsu master, Hinogaki Gennosuke has the ability to defeat Sanshiro's siblings in an instant. Sanshiro, who had been taught by his teacher to stop training, was unsuitable to fight at this time, but he has the feeling that the day will finally come when he will decide between male and female.

Eventually, an invitation letter for opening a new Jiu Jido dojo arrives at Yano of Shudokan. It was an invitation to set up another style match on the spot, but this was a challenge that Kadoma of the Shinmei-Katsuryu was assigned to Sanshiro to betray and revenge for many years. However, Kadoma, who has increased his ability, is no longer an enemy of Sanshiro, and when Sanshiro's special throwing technique " Yamaarashi " was decided, Kadama struck his head against the wall and died. Even though it was a match, he died another person, and the sorrowful eyes of Kadoma's daughter who witnessed a tragedy there, and Sanshiro lost the significance of continuing judo.

Sanshiro finally regained the energy to fight with his teacher Yano's special training, and meets a beautiful girl who prays earnestly at the shrine . This girl was Sayo, the daughter of Hanshinsuke Murai, the master of good transfer. After seeing his death fight, Hanai Murai applied to Sanshiro for a match at the Metropolitan Police Department's martial arts tournament , and at night, he prayed for his old father's victory. Knowing that, Sanshiro asks himself how he should be in the match and falls into a dead end again, but he says to Osho at the temple where Shudokan is, ``When you were beautiful, you couldn't lose to the beautiful strength of the daughter. His heart was determined when Sanshiro of the bog with lotus flowers was pointed at the stake he was clinging to.

The Metropolitan Police Department Martial Arts Competition was held while many people were watching over it. Murai overwhelmed Sanshiro with all his might, but when the sharpened technique of Sanshiro was decided, the game was over. However, Sanshiro was frightened by the awesomeness of Murai who stood up whether thrown or thrown, and even though everyone celebrated, he could not afford to immerse himself in the afterglow of the victory, but healed the tiredness of the battle dedicated to the whole body. It was Murai's warm words and Saya's home cooking that invited me to the dojo.

The only thing I finally get from Gennosuke Higaki, who is angry at me, is that it's not fun. Not only did I not get a place to fight Sanshiro, but I don't like the fact that Saya who loves her and Sanshiro are close to each other. It was time to finally decide between male and female while Uukyo was telling Fukuunkyu duel in Hara....

## Cast

* Shogoro Yano: Denjiro Okochi
* Appearance Sanshiro: Susumu Fujita
* Saya: Yuko Todoroki
* Gennosuke Higaki: Ryunosuke Tsukigata
* Hanai Murai: Takashi Shimura
* Ozumi: Ranko Hanai
* Tsunezumi Iinuma: Sugisaku Aoyama
* Mishima Chief: Ichiro Sugai
* Saburo Monma: Yoshio Kosugi
* Osho: Kuninori Takado
* Hatta: Ryosaburo Segawa
* Yoshimaro Dan: Akitake Kono
* Yujiro Toda: Souji Kiyokawa
* Kozaki Tsuzaki: Kunio Mita
* Toranosuke Shinseki: Akira Nakamura
* Nemoto: Eisaburo Sakauchi
* Torayoshi: Ko Yamamuro

## Staff

* Director/Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa
* Planning: Keiji Matsuzaki
* Original: Tsuneo Tomita (Nishiki Publishing Company Edition)
* Photography: Akira Mimura
* Art: Masao Totsuka
* Recording: Tomohisa Higuchi
* Lighting: Masayoshi Onuma
* Music: Seiichi Suzuki
* Director Assistant: Toshio Sugie
* Edit: Toshio Goto
* Development: Toho Developer

## Production

In 1942 , Toho 's assistant director Akira Kurosawa planned "German of Darumaji", "Minori no Ichiya", "Sanpaguita no Hana", etc., who wrote the script as a director's maiden film, but during the war, it was filmed. In addition to the limited supply, it could not be realized due to censorship by the Ministry of Interior , and it was difficult to become a supervisor  . In September of the same year, Kurosawa saw a new book advertisement of Tsuneo Tomita 's novel " Sugata Sanshiro " in the newspaper, and was convinced that it could be made into a movie only with the advertisement text, and he made a movie negotiation with Toho Planning Director Nobuyoshi Morita Persuaded  . Since Morita was reluctant to buy the movie rights for the unpublished book, Kurosawa who could not wait waited to watch the book going to the bookstore in Shibuya , bought it as soon as it was released, finished reading at once, and again Persuaded Morita to make a movie negotiation  . The day after Toho negotiated a movie, Daiei and Shochiku also visited the Tomita family to acquire the movie rights, but Tomita's wife knows Kurosawa in the movie magazine and he is a promising newcomer. By persuading him, Toho was able to obtain the movie rights  .

It was cranked in on the precinct of Asama Shrine in Yokohama on December 13th of the same year  . At this time, the scene was shot by Shogoro Yano and Sanshiro Sugata, while Muraya Hansuke's daughter Koya prayed for her father to win the match  . Two days later, a scene was shot in Handa City , Aichi Prefecture , where Yano threw an enemy into the river. The water temperature of the river is near zero, and the hostile actor was thrown into the river and taken to a hotel to warm his body  . At this time, Yujiro Okochi, who played the role of Yano, had fallen into the river with too much force when throwing away

On February 15, 1943, in Sengokuhara , Hakone , a scene of a climax Sanshiro and Gennosuke Higaki playing a duel in Ukyogahara was filmed  . This scene was set so that one side of Susuki flutters in strong winds, and initially we planned to make Susukihara with a set and generate a wind with a large fan, but Kurosawa was dissatisfied with the completeness of the set, so he negotiated with the company The location was confirmed within 3 days  . There, I shot in Sengokuhara, which is famous for the strong winds, but the days where it didn't blow a single wind continued, and when the third day finally arrived, I was lucky enough to have strong winds and I was able to shoot as I expected  . Kurosawa described it as "just a kamikaze of Sengokuhara "  .

The scene of the last light steam locomotive was taken on the Chuen Railway (later Shizuoka Railway Suun Line )  . Although Kurosawa following staff in the passenger car in this scene has appeared in dressed as a passenger, I saw a preview Iwao Mori has been cut been chided as "too silly!" The director.

## Short version

At the time of release, this work was released as a 97-minute work. However, when it was re-screened in March 1944, the year after it was released , a part of it was cut off without the knowledge of the people involved, shortening it to 79 minutes. Furthermore , it was banned as a "movie against democracy" by GHQ censorship after the war  . It was released again in March 1952 after the ban on screening was lifted, but since the negative film of the shortened part was scattered due to the post-war confusion etc., it was released as a shortened version of 79 minutes and the apology subtitle was added at the beginning.  . This cut part includes scenes related to Gennosuke Higaki and scenes where Sanshiro receives special training from his teacher. In addition to this, there are places where scenes and lines drop out.

1990s in Russia of Goss film Fond ( Russian version ) , the 45 minutes of the film, including the part of the cut portion was found that had been stored  . This is said to have brought back the film stored in the Manchuria Film Association when the Soviet army invaded Manchuria  . In 2000, a 45-minute version of Goss Film's collection went home, and the following year it was shown at the National Museum of Modern Art , Tokyo Film Center  . The longest version of the additional full-length 91 minutes to 12 minutes of cut portions, 2002 released DVD was recorded.

## Remakes

*Sanshiro Sugata* has been remade five times since it was initially released, although these versions are even harder to find in the west than the original. The 1955 and 1965 versions share the script of the original versions, whereas the subsequent three releases are all based on the novel rather than Kurosawa's screenplay.

* *Sugata Sanshirō* (1955) - Directed by Shigeo Tanaka
* *Sugata Sanshirō* (1965) - Directed by Seiichirō Uchikawa
* *Ninkyō Yawara Ichidai* (1966) - Directed by Sadao Nakajima
* *Sugata Sanshirō* (1970) - Directed by Kunio Watanabe
* *Sugata Sanshirō* (1977) - Directed by Kihachi Okamoto