Sanshiro Sugata
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Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
Written by | Akira Kurosawa Tomita Tsuneo |
Produced by | Keiji Matsuzaki |
Starring | Denjirô Ôkôchi Susumu Fujita Yukiko Todoroki Takashi Shimura |
Music by | Seiichi Suzuki |
Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. |
Release date | 25 March 1943 |
Running time | 80 min. / original: 97 min. |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | ? |
Sanshiro Sugata (姿三四郎 Sugata Sanshirō; aka Judo Saga) is a 1943 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa, based on a novel by Tomita Tsuneo.
The film is about Sugata Sanshirō (known in the English-language version of the film in Western order, Sanshiro Sugata). Set in 1882, it deals with the foundation of Judo and its conflict with jujutsu.
The film was re-released after the war; however, it was discovered that the film was missing 17 minutes. Today the lost footage has not yet been found.
External links
- Sanshiro Sugata at IMDb
- Sanshiro Sugata at All Movie Guide.
- Review of Sanshiro Sugata
- Review of Sanshiro Sugata with stills
- Image of poster for Sanshiro Sugata