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With: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Kato, Seizaburo Kawazu, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yosuke Natsuki, Eijiro Tono, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Susumu Fujita, Kyu Sazanka
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Written by: Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima
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Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Language: Japanese, with English subtitles
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Running Time: 110
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Date: 04/25/1961
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Samurai I Am
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune team up for one of their most basic and enjoyable samurai films. The clever Sanjuro (Mifune) arrives in a small town and proceeds to play one rival faction against the other. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Costume Design. Sanjuro returned in a sequel, Sanjuro, the following year. And Sergio Leone famously remade both films as Spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood. In the 1990s, Walter Hill did another remake, Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis, and gave Kurosawa story credit.
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