Sanjuro

Akira Kurosawa's cinematic masterpiece

The best cinematic illustration I’ve seen of the
Law of Opposites

2 comments to Sanjuro

Dave

2011/05/08 at 18:23

Sanjuro in the Context of Corporate Culture
Sanjuro is not the only samurai film whose story bears on modern politics or corporate culture – indeed not even the only Kurosawa samurai film. Seven Samurai illustrates the highly context-dependent treatment of competent players and Hiroshi Inagaki’s Chūshingura chronicles the so-called Akō incident of 1701-1703 in which a clan leader’s refusal to submit to corruption and his subsequent unjust conviction leads his most loyal vassals to take a politically spectacular and historically iconic revenge in strict accordance with samurai tradition.
Dave

2019/11/21 at 13:17

It took me a while to discover Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins (2010), which establishes a clear trend in the focus of Japanese-made samurai movies toward social justice. These 13 hand-picked assassins mete it out in droves as they descend upon a human monster (masterfully played by Gorô Inagaki) and his growing entourage to interdict his political career and save Japan from descending back into feudalism on the brink of the Meiji Restoration.

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