Movie·2007·1h 59m
Tsubaki Sanjuro
A scruffy master-less samurai decides to help a group of young warriors whose leader was taken captive by a gang of ambitious officers.
Directed By
Yoshimitsu Morita
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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The Story
Original title: 椿三十郎
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!
Written By
Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Producer
Minami Ichikawa, Haruki Kadokawa
Cinematography
Takeshi Hamada
Music
Michiru Oshima
Editor
Shinji Tanaka
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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// cast
Cast
Yuji Oda
Sanjuro Tsubaki
Tsuyoshi Hayashi
Bunji Terada
Kenichi Matsuyama
Iori Isaka
Makoto Fujita
Mr. Mutsuta
Shin'yû Fujiwara
Ichitaro
Kunie Hogawa
Yoshihiro Kasuya
Shin Kawahara
Morio Kazama
Takebayashi
Nenji Kobayashi
Kurofuji
Yūkichi Kobayashi
Kakuzo Hatta
Miyuki Komagata
Chisato Morishita
Eri Murakawa
Koiso
Michita Nagatsuka
Tamao Nakamura
Mrs. Mutsuta
Takuya Nakayama
Shunpei Hirose
Tokuma Nishioka
Kikui
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Kimura / Chidori
// crew
Crew
Minami Ichikawa
Producer
Haruki Kadokawa
Executive Producer
Kazuko Misawa
Producer
Shogo Tomiyama
Producer
Akihiko Ôsugi
Producer
Ryuzo Kikushima
Writer
Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Yoshimitsu Morita
Director
Takeshi Hamada
Director of Photography
Michiru Oshima
Original Music Composer
Shinji Tanaka
Editor
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