Akira Kurosawa: Four Samurai Classics Disc 4: Sanjuro (Criterion)

New digital transfer from new 35mm print

Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect-once again-in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this companion piece to Yojimbo, jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a "proper samurai" on its ear.