1945 | Japan | Fiction

Zoku Sugata Sanshirô (Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two)

  • Japanese 83 mins
  • Director | Akira Kurosawa
  • Writer | Akira Kurosawa
  • Producer | Motohiko Ito

STATUS: Released

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Kurosawa’s first film was such a success that the studio leaned on the director to make a sequel. The result is a hugely entertaining adventure, reuniting most of the major players from the original and featuring a two-part narrative in which Sanshiro first fights a pair of Americans and then finds himself the target of a revenge mission undertaken by the brothers of the original film’s villain.

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