Sanjuro

the stealth factor the Yakuza clan always operated by. To further satire them, Kurosawa showed that events that occurred in daylights could often end in incredibly pathetic manners. The best instance of this is in the beginning of the film after Sanjuro decides he will leave Seibei and simply watch the fight between the two gangs. The two gangs nervously edge

human identities. When Sanjuro Kuwabatake meets the Ushitora’s goons, the contrast between the true warrior and the superficial ones makes me laugh and feel disgusted at the same time. As a samurai, Sanjuro is confident in his sword fighting skills, whereas the bandits have to brag about their tattoo and criminal histories. The medium long shot reveals the forced swagger of the goons, clearly trying hard to hide their true nature, their cowardice, in comparison to Sanjuro, who is calm and assured

orders for the owner, who comes out and presents himself as Gonji. There the proprietor explains the hierarchy of the town, and how the citizens are helpless and weak and are pleading an end to all of this. As the continuations of this story informs Sanjuro about the villains are thugs, drug dealers and

The film Sanjuro by Akira Kurosawa is a sequel to film Yojimbo. The main character Sanjuro is a very smart and strong nomad samurai. As in Yojimbo, Sanjuro appears to be a hero who helps to get rid of the evil that terrorizes the town. In Sanjuro he helps to get rid of two rival gangster groups that terrorize general public of the town, while in Yojimbo he rescues Matsuta’s family and help to destroy corrupted superintendent. There are many similarities between two films. Sanjuro uses his intelligence

films are carried over from more classic films such as Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, who also used intertextuality. A story with a lone wolf archetype, violence, and swordplay we can recognize in Tarantino’s work as well as that 70s and 80s Asian cinema he loves. This paper will look at what elements in Sanjuro may have influenced Tarantino in the creation of his work and particularly in Kill Bill. In Sanjuro, the lead character Sanjuro Tsubaki, played by Toshiro Mifune, is a man of mystery. An excellent

informs Sanjuro about the villains of thugs, drug dealers and others that roam around, he has one thing on his mind: money. This anti-hero could care less about this desperate town in need, he is just greedy for the cash. He is looking to be paid well for the service of being a bodyguard to anyone as long as he gets his reward for it. His selfish and avaricious self possesses bad manners and uncaring ethics; however, he is very skillful with a sword. On the contrast of being greedy, Sanjuro has an

them. Also, the gangs’ corruptions do not only impact the proletarian but also include the government’s services. Another example that illustrates capitalism’s control is that Seibei’s gangs and Ushitora’s gangs are competing and trying to convince Sanjuro to accept their offers and work for one of them. This competition between the two gangs shows the ideology of capitalism and its concept; gangs need to maintain their power in order to be able to control others. Seibei’s gangs and Ushitora’s gangs

During the first part of the movie where Sanjuro came to the deserted village that is somewhat abandoned by the Japanese Government, in actuality it is more like a ghost town. It showed a classic western “wild west” setting where a stranger passes by the empty town while the wind is blowing the leaves and dust. The villagers are scared on what might happen to him and village so the stranger was advised to leave. But of course like the western classic Sanjuro

are quite similar to the robes that the Samurai used, another one is the Japanese katana that the Samurais used in battle and the Light Saber that the Jedi used to keep the peace. George Lucas also borrowed ideas from other samurai movies such as Sanjuro and Yojimbo both by Akira Kurosawa. Apart from having Asian origins, Star Wars also has Western background. One of the earliest science fiction graphic novels known to man is Flash Gordon. It’s clear why George Lucas took some of Flash Gordon’s

It is difficult to imagine that two nations as culturally distinct as the United States and Japan in the 1960s, could find any common ground. However, the similarities between Akira Kurosawa 's Yojimbo and Sergio Leone 's A Fistful of Dollars are undeniable and yet both films reached similar levels of success in their respective nations. In fact, the films were found to be so analogous that Kurosawa is known to have sued Leone for the unlicensed production of his film. All of this aside, it is the