Sanshiro Sugata

05/29/1965

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2hrs 39min

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Action

,Drama

Judo Saga

STORY

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Yūzō Kayama
  • Toshirō Mifune
  • Tsutomu Yamazaki
  • Eiji Okada
  • Takashi Shimura

    Directors

  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Seiichirō Uchikawa

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • TOHO
  • Kurosawa Production
  • Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese