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All that said, it's still [[Akira Kurosawa]], so it's a pretty damn good movie regardless.
All that said, it's still [[Akira Kurosawa]], so it's a pretty damn good movie regardless.


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=== Sanjuro provides examples of: ===
* [[Character Development]]: Some of the Sidekick!Samurais actually have a change of perspective throughout the course of the movie.
* [[Character Development]]: Some of the Sidekick!Samurais actually have a change of perspective throughout the course of the movie.
** As does Sanjuro himself due to the old lady's metaphor of how "a good sword stays in its scabbard."
** As does Sanjuro himself due to the old lady's metaphor of how "a good sword stays in its scabbard."
* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: Why the Sidekicks at the beginning of the movie are cluelessly waiting for the villain's agents to arrive and murder them. Fortunately for them, their chatter wakes Sanjuro up and he decides to save their silly asses.
* [[Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: Why the Sidekicks at the beginning of the movie are cluelessly waiting for the villain's agents to arrive and murder them. Fortunately for them, their chatter wakes Sanjuro up and he decides to save their silly asses.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The guard they capture at Mutsuta's mansion has one of these and becomes quite nice. He even points out that {{spoiler|Yamyoji Temple has no upper floor}}, a flaw in the final plan that was overlooked.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: The guard they capture at Mutsuta's mansion has one of these and becomes quite nice. He even points out that {{spoiler|Yamyoji Temple has no upper floor}}, a flaw in the final plan that was overlooked.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Didn't Sanjuro [[Yojimbo|already kill this guy?]]
** Hey, it's Kanji Watanabe and that author guy from [[Ikiru]]! On opposite sides!
* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: {{spoiler|Muroto at the very end.}}
* [[High-Pressure Blood]]: {{spoiler|Muroto at the very end.}}
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: [[No Name Given|Tsubaki Sanjuro,]] natch.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: [[No Name Given|Tsubaki Sanjuro,]] natch.
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[[Category:The Criterion Collection]]
[[Category:The Criterion Collection]]
[[Category:The Criterion Collection (LaserDisc)]]
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[[Category:Japanese Films]]
[[Category:Sanjuro]]
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[[Category:Akira Kurosawa]]
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Latest revision as of 12:57, 3 October 2020

So, you're Akira Kurosawa, and you've made a pretty successful movie, Yojimbo. You had a good star, Toshiro Mifune, in a role that he was born to play. Your story was so good that it'd later get swiped wholesale by Sergio Leone. And Disneyland hasn't opened in Japan yet. So what do you do? Well, a sequel, obviously. But what kind of a sequel?

Clearly, since Yojimbo was a dark, serious adventure featuring a lone man manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, Sanjuro, the sequel, needs to be that same character with not just one, or two, or even three wacky sidekicks, but ten, plus a character who misses out on the whole New York Jewish Mother stereotype only by being Japanese. Oh, and it's, the ending aside, a comedy.

All that said, it's still Akira Kurosawa, so it's a pretty damn good movie regardless.

Tropes used in Sanjuro include: