Sanjuro Tsubaki (1962)

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Sanjuro Tsubaki (also known as Sanjuro) is a 1962 toho action film,Directed by World famous Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa.

## Plot

Nine samurai that are all headed by the nephew of the castle family, Isaka Iori, discussed the issue of rectifying internal corruption in the shrine. In the process, a wandering wild samurai Tsubakiro appeared suddenly, telling the nine samurai who was the real man behind the scenes. At first, the nine samurai didn't believe it, but later they were fulfilling what Tsubaki Saniro had said, and each one gradually changed his opinion. The nine samurai headed by Iizaka Iori intend to rescue the family of Inizaka and defeat corrupt officials such as Kikui and Kurotō. Tsubaki Saniro also joined the nine samurai and carried out a series of rescue operations.

## Cast

* Sanjuro Tsubaki: Toshiro Mifune
* Muroto Hanbei: Tatsuya Nakadai
* Iori Izaka: Yuzo Kayama
* Watch Samurai Kimura: Keiju Kobayashi
* Deputy Chief Kurofuji: Takashi Shimura
* National Servant Takebayashi: Kamatari Fujiwara
* Shunpei Hirose: Yoshio Tsuchiya
* Kunie Tanaka : Kunie Tanaka
* Chidori: Reiko Dan
* Yabei Mutsuda, the chief retainer of the castle: Yunosuke Ito
* Bunji Terada: Akihiko Hirata
* Mrs. Mutsuda: Takako Irie
* Ometsuke Kikui Rokurobei: Masao Shimizu
* Hayato Morishima: Akira Kubo
* Shin Kawahara: Hiroshi Tachikawa
* Shingo Sekiguchi: Tatsuyoshi Ehara
* Kurofuji Family Sandayu: Toranosuke Ogawa
* Ashigaru: Sachio Sakai
* Kakuzo Hatta: Keizo Matsui
* Handmaiden: Toshiko Higuchi
* Hironoshin Morishima: Tatsuhiko Hari
* Kikui's subordinate: Toyohiko Sada
* Under Kikui: Gen Shimizu
* Horse-riding Samurai: Shin Otomo
* Watchman Samurai: Shoichi Hirose
* Horse- riding Samurai: Fuminori Ohashi

## Staff

* Produced by: Tomoyuki Tanaka , Ryuzo Kikushima
* Original: From Shugoro Yamamoto's "Daily Heian"
* Screenplay: Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni , Akira Kurosawa
* Photo: Fukuzo Koizumi , Takao Saito
* Art: Yoshiro Muraki
* Recording: Wataru Onuma
* Lighting: Ichiro Inohara
* Music: Masaru Sato
* Sound adjustment: Hisashi Shimonaga
* Assistant Director: Shiro Moritani
* Development: Kinuta Laboratory
* Producer: Hiroshi Nezu
* Sword technique guidance: Ryu Kuze
* Director: Akira Kurosawa

## Titles

* Sanjuro Tsubaki (Japanese: 椿三十郎～三船敏郎 Original Japanese release title)
* Sanjuro (Worldwide release title)

## Production

Mainly Planed to be based on Shūgorō Yamamoto's short story "Peaceful Days"  (日日平安,   *Hibi hei-an*?). Originally *Sanjuro* was to be a straight adaptation of the story. After the success of *Yojimbo* the studio decided to resurrect its popular antihero, and Kurosawa reimagined the script accordingly. But despite a certain element of continuity, the eventual film turned out to be more than just a sequel to *Yojimbo* for the hero goes on to develop in character from the swashbuckling original.

He is, as before a masterless samurai who preserves his anonymity by the same means. When asked his name in *Yojimbo* he looks outside and names himself mulberry (*Kuwabatake*); in *Sanjuro* he chooses a camellia (*Tsubaki*). In both cases he gives *Sanjūrō* (thirty-year-old) as his given name, although in both films he admits to being closer to forty. A crucial difference, however, is that there is no appeal to the Western genre in the story line, as there was in *Yojimbo*. That was set in an out-of-the-way border town where the hero deals ruthlessly with local thugs, while in *Sanjuro* the action centres on a Japanese feudal power struggle in a clan fortress town. There the hero realises that Hanbei, his main opponent, is a man much like himself: a social outsider (an “unsheathed sword” in the words of the chamberlain’s wife) free to pick his own side in a conflict. The difference between them is only in the motives behind their choice.

There is also a greater element of social comedy, with the seasoned fighter constantly hampered by the failure to grasp the true situation by the young men he chooses to help. But while he is their superior in tactics, the lady he has just rescued confounds him by insisting that he restrain himself, since killing people is a bad habit. Although there has to be some killing, largely as result of the inept actions of his young allies, the only truly violent moment comes at the very end in the duel between Sanjuro and Hanbei. From this he walks away in a fury, because his young admirers are still unable to read human nature and understand the significance of what has just happened.

## Overview

It is a sequel to the masterpiece "Yojimbo", and in the previous work, Sanjuro who called himself Kuwahata played an active part as Sanjuro Tsubaki. As a character, he becomes more human, and uses his humor and wisdom to help the nine young samurai who stood up to uncover the injustices of their superiors. The story is led to the famous last duel scene while controlling the bloody young samurai such as Yuzo Kayama well and comparing the wisdom with the enemy's bouncer Tatsuya Nakadai.