Overview
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guard challengers—including a deadly duel—while falling for his vanquished opponent’s daughter. Based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita, son of Tomita Tsunejirō, the earliest disciple of judo.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 25, 1943
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO,Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.
- Cast
- Denjirō Ōkōchi,Susumu Fujita,Yukiko Todoroki,Ryūnosuke Tsukigata,Takashi Shimura,Ranko Hanai,Sugisaku Aoyama,Ichirō Sugai,Yoshio Kosugi,Kokuten Kōdōand 8 more
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Tsuneo Tomita,Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Keiji Matsuzaki
- Cinematography
- Akira Mimura
- Music
- Seiichi Suzuki
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
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