Tatsuya Nakadai

A fine example of the Kurosawa style...precision of narrative in both scripting and imagistic storytelling...

Rather than simply repeating the successful formula of Yojimbo, which incorporated humor but largely played it straight, Sanjuro flips the script for a largely comic action picture punctuated by a dark, rug-yanking conclusion.

One of the all-time-great 'procedurals'...the devilish fun is in the details for Kurosawa.