Sanshiro Sugata

Action, Drama · 1965

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.

Starring

Yūzō Kayama, Akira Kurosawa, Toshirō Mifune, Akira Kurosawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masaru Satō, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Eiji Okada, Fukuzo Koizumi, Takashi Shimura

Director

Seiichirô Uchikawa