[MrHenryDog]

Toshito Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic
effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully
composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to
Yojimbo, the jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an ideal is-
tic 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. Less brazen in tone
than its predecessor but just as engaging, this classic
characters return is a masterpiece in its own right,
now presented in a new high-definition transfer