26 August 2012

Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)

8/10
Liked it a lot; it's fun(ny) how scenes like the one with Sanjuro tied up and still outsmarting his 3 watchers are reproduced practically verbatim even today. I don't think Kurosawa's influence on contemporary cinema can ever be overstated. I didn't like it as much as Yojimbo, its "companion piece", and it was a little slow in the middle, but the ending scene made up for everything - really blew my mind and genuinely startled me.

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