Judo Saga
1943 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan
Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the youth learns technique, he must also learn "satori," the calm acceptance of Nature's law. If he can balance strength and control, then judo may become the training regimen for the city's police, Sanshiro can gain respect from an old teacher in a jujitsu school, and he can win the hand of Sayo, that teacher's daughter, who is also sought by jujitsu's finest master, the implacable Higaki, who vows to kill Sanshiro in a midnight fight on a windswept mountainside.
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Takashi Shimura · Ranko Hanai · Sugisaku Aoyama · Ichiro Sugai · Yoshio Kosugi · Kokuten Kôdô
Soundtrack Seiichi Suzuki
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa · Tsuneo Tomita
Cinematography Akira Mimura
Original title Sugata Sanshirô
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792 votes (FilmAffinity)
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