Sanjuro

Sanjuro
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kanji	椿三十郎
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Tsubaki Sanjūrō
Directed by	Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay by	Ryūzō Kikushima Hideo Oguni Akira Kurosawa[1]
Based on	Hibi Heian by Shugoro Yamamoto
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka Ryūzō Kikushima[1]
Starring	Toshiro Mifune Tatsuya Nakadai Keiju Kobayashi Yūzō Kayama[1]
Cinematography	Fukuzo Koizumi Takao Saito[1]
Edited by	Akira Kurosawa
Music by	Masaru Sato[1]
Production companies	Toho Kurosawa Production[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	January 1, 1962 (1962-01-01) (Japan)
Running time	95 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥450.1 million (Japan rentals)

Sanjuro (Japanese: 椿三十郎, Hepburn: Tsubaki Sanjūrō) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed, co-written and edited by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo.^[2]

Originally an adaptation of the Shūgorō Yamamoto novel Hibi Heian, the script was altered following the success of the previous year's Yojimbo to incorporate the lead character of that film.