Sanshiro Sugata II (1945) ( Zoku Sugata Sanshiro )

Sanshiro Sugata II (1945) (Blu-Ray) (*)

$24.99

Original Title: Zoku Sugata Sanshiro
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
81 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1945 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Akira Kurosawa

Written By:
Akira Kurosawa
Tsuneo Tomita

Actors:
Denjirô Ôkôchi ..... Shogoro Yano
Susumu Fujita ..... Sanshiro Sugata
Ryunosuke Tsukigata ..... Gennosuke Higaki/Teshin Higaki, Gennosuke's younger brother
Akitake Kôno ..... Genzaburo Higaki
Yukiko Todoroki ..... Sayo
Shôji Kiyokawa ..... Yujiro Toda
Masayuki Mori ..... Yoshima Dan
Seiji Miyaguchi ..... Kohei Tsuzaki
Ko Ishida ..... Daisuburo Hidarimonji
Kazu Hikari ..... Kihei Sekine
Kokuten Kodo ..... Buddhist Priest Saiduchi
Ichirô Sugai ..... Yoshizo Fubiki
Osman Yusuf ..... American Sailor (as Osman Yusef)
Roy James
E.H. Eric

Synopsis:

This 1945 Japanese film by renowned director Akira Kurosawa, is a sequel to its better known predecessor, Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Both concern the relationship between Shogoro Yano (Denjiro Okochi), the founder of the martial arts discipline of Judo, and Sanshiro Sugata (Susumu Fujita), one of his principal students. Like many such relationships, this one is shown to be a blend of the spiritual and the intimately personal. As the film was made during World War II, it not surprisingly contains vignettes in which Europeans are made to appear extraordinarily piggish and vulgar. This film was re-released in a slightly shorter, re-edited and subtitled version in 1981 and was first seen in the U.S. at the Film Forum in New York City in 1989. It is of interest both as a tightly-crafted martial arts master-and-student film, and as an early example of Kurosawa's mature style.

In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 15 December, 2022.

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