History Film / Sanjuro

* AffablyEvil: Muroto is fastidious and polite, and his sharp mind reminds Sanjuro a little of himself.
* AnimalMotifs: Whereas in ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' Sanjuro's behaviour- his habit of scratching a lot, his confident, shambling walk- is akin to that of a wolf or a dog, in ''Sanjuro'' he's compared to a tiger or a cat: he's intelligent and deadly, but much more languid.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted with Chamberlain Mutsuta and Superintendent Kikui. The Chamberlain describes himself as having a "horse face", which lead the warriors to mistrust him despite his being an honorable man, while they initially assume that Kikui is a good man who will aid them in dealing with the corrupt officials because he's handsome, when he's really their ringleader. Also inverted with a couple of ugly but well-meaning young sidekicks. Played straight with Sanjuro, who is scruffy but very handsome.
* BigBad: Superintendent Kikui, the CorruptPolitician our heroes are fighting.
* BigGood: Chamberlain Mutsuta.
* BittersweetEnding: Sanjuro kills [[spoiler: Muroto]], but he's not happy about it, given all he'd learned from Mutsuta's wife.
* BrilliantButLazy: Sanjuro is an excellent strategist and a MasterSwordsman, but he would rather spend more time dozing in a corner of the room rather than participating in the activities of his nine companions.

* BumblingSidekick: The nine young men whom Sanjuro offers to help, although they get the job done smoothly whenever they follow Sanjuro's instructions without complaint.
* ButNowIMustGo: The Lord of the region offers him a job, but Sanjuro doesn't show up. The Lord reveals that he knew Sanjuro would never be able to settle down like that, and the young samurai Sanjuro had been tutoring chase after him to change his mind. [[spoiler:Ends up subverted; after having to kill his adversary, Sanjuro's too upset to stay, but he won't be venturing on either, with the implication that it's time to retire his blade.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Some of the Sidekick!Samurais actually have a change of perspective throughout the course of the movie.
** As does Sanjuro himself due to the old lady's metaphor of how "a good sword stays in its scabbard."
* CharacterTics: As in ''Yojimbo'', Sanjuro has habits of scratching his head and beard, and hitching his shoulders.
** Takebayashi is often seen pacing up and down, showing that he can be a bit of a NervousWreck.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Sanjuro has grown weary of his ruthlessness in ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' and tries to refrain from it in this movie, even though he ends up killing 27 people by the end.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sanjuro, endlessly.
--->'''Sanjuro''': You tired of being stupid yet?
* DeconstructedTrope: Sanjuro's brutal tendencies as a fighter, thanks to wise advice from the Chamberlain's wife.
* DragonAscendant: This is what Muroto hopes to be to Superintendent Kikui.
* TheDrifter: Sanjuro.

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Why the Sidekicks at the beginning of the movie are cluelessly waiting for the villain's agents to arrive and murder them. Fortunately for them, their chatter wakes Sanjuro up and he decides to save their silly asses.

* HighPressureBlood: [[spoiler:Muroto at the very end.]] It's actually the UrExample of the trope in film, and a fine example of ThrowItIn: the "blood" pump malfunctioned, running at full pressure rather than the intended rate, but the visual effect of the blood and the difficulty of cleaning up the fake "blood" led Kurosawa to just go with it.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Before the beginning, a group of young samurai incorrectly identify the corrupt official in the clan, and plan to root him out. This would have played out perfectly for the actual corrupt official if a certain nameless ronin hadn't been eavesdropping.
* [[IdiotHero Idiot Heroes]]: The nine sidekicks.

* KissingCousins: Hinted at by Mutsuta's daughter Chidori as she talks about the times when she and her cousin Iori (Mutsuta's nephew) have met in the barn they're hiding in. See [[RollInTheHay Roll In The Hay]] below.
* LastVillainStand: The duel against Muroto.
* LighterAndSofter: Which oddly makes it ''more'' violent than ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' in parts.

* ManlyTears: Sanjuro is moved to tears [[spoiler: after he is forced to kill Muroto in a duel.]]
** Particularly, Sanjuro was looking forward to avoiding all unnecessary use of his sword like the old lady said. Circumstances spurned him otherwise, however.
* MasterSwordsman: Sanjuro, naturally. [[BrilliantButLazy When he feels like it.]]

* OneManArmy: Sanjuro, of course.
* OneWordTitle

* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: [[spoiler: The final duel.]] See above for the reason.
* ProtagonistTitle

* ReverseGrip: [[spoiler: It's how Sanjuro wins the SingleStrokeBattle.]]

* SamuraiPonytail: Mifune's samurai with no name is a poor wandering ronin with a short, scruffy ponytail that sticks straight out of the back of his head.

* {{Seppuku}}: [[spoiler: Superintendent Kikui after his defeat]]. Chamberlain Mutsuta was also in danger of doing this to himself while under captivity.
* SheatheYourSword: [[AnAesop The moral]] of the story, taught to Sanjuro by Mutsuta's wife.
* SingleStrokeBattle: The final battle.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Hilariously, the Sidekicks screw up Sanjuro's plan to infiltrate the enemy.
* SpottingTheThread: At one point Sanjuro lures out the corrupt official's army by telling them that he had heard the rebels plotting while he napped on the second floor of a certain shrine on the outskirts of town. Unfortunately, someone eventually remembers that the shrine in question is a one story building, resulting in Sanjuro getting caught.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Sanjuro repeatedly displays this attitude regarding the others. Understandably.
* TooDumbToLive: Those Sidekicks wouldn't last 10 seconds without Sanjuro watching their back. See HaveYouToldAnyoneElse above for the establishing example.
* VisualPun: "We can't walk around like this. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments We look like a centipede.]]"
* UglyGuyHotWife: Mutsuta's wife is an attractive middle-aged lady, whereas Mutsuta is referred to as a "scarecrow." Mutsuta himself recounts an encounter where, as he was riding by, someone said of him that "the rider has a longer face than the horse."
* WomenAreWiser: Mutsuta's wife is more sensible than most of the men in the movie, save for Sanjuro and Mutsuta, and the former takes her words to heart.
* WorthyOpponent: Sanjuro considers Muroto to be one, and the feeling is mutual.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Their {{plan}} to rescue the Chamberlain quickly goes awry, but Sanjuro shows mastery of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardy]] by exercising this trope.
* YamatoNadeshiko: Mutsuta's wife as seen in the page quote; a sheath takes care of its sword.

While ''Yojimbo'' was a dark comedy about a wandering {{ronin}} manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'' is a lighter comedy teaming the same character up with ten wacky sidekicks, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole JewishMother stereotype only by being Japanese. Their mission: expose the corrupt official playing the local government like a fiddle.

''Sanjuro'' (椿三十郎 - ''Tsubaki Sanjūrō'') is a 1962 Japanese {{Jidaigeki}} film directed by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. It is the sequel to 1961's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', and stars Creator/ToshiroMifune once again. Kurosawa had been writing a film adaptation of the novel ''Peaceful Days'' by Shugoro Yamamoto, with the intention of having his assistant director Hiromichi Horikawa direct the project. In response to the popularity of Mifune's character in ''Yojimbo'', the script was rewritten to have ''Sanjuro'' be the titular main character, and Kurosawa decided to direct the film himself.

Despite its relatively rushed production (getting released less than eight months after ''Yojimbo'''s premiere and being adapted from a work that didn't even have its lead character originally), it turned out to be a damn great sequel.

''Sanjuro'' (椿三十郎 - ''Tsubaki Sanjūrō'') is a 1962 Japanese film in the {{Jidaigeki}} genre, directed by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. It is the sequel to 1961's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', and stars Creator/ToshiroMifune once again. Kurosawa had been writing a film adaptation of the novel ''Peaceful Days'' by Shugoro Yamamoto, with the intention of having his assistant director Hiromichi Horikawa direct the project. In response to the popularity of Mifune's character in ''Yojimbo'', the script was rewritten to have ''Sanjuro'' be the titular main character, and Kurosawa decided to direct the film himself.

''Sanjuro'' (椿三十郎, ''Tsubaki Sanjūrō'') is a 1962 Japanese film in the {{Jidaigeki}} genre, directed by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. It is the sequel to 1961's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', and stars Creator/ToshiroMifune once again. Kurosawa had been writing a film adaptation of the novel ''Peaceful Days'' by Shugoro Yamamoto, with the intention of having his assistant director Hiromichi Horikawa direct the project. In response to the popularity of Mifune's character in ''Yojimbo'', the script was rewritten to have ''Sanjuro'' be the titular main character, and Kurosawa decided to direct the film himself.

''Sanjuro'' is a 1962 Japanese film in the {{Jidaigeki}} genre, directed by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. It is the sequel to 1961's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', and stars Creator/ToshiroMifune once again. Kurosawa had been writing a film adaptation of the novel ''Peaceful Days'' by Shugoro Yamamoto, with the intention of having his assistant director Hiromichi Horikawa direct the project. In response to the popularity of Mifune's character in ''Yojimbo'', the script was rewritten to have ''Sanjuro'' be the titular main character, and Kurosawa decided to direct the film himself.

''Sanjuro'' is a 1962 Japanese film in the {{Jidaigeki}} genre directed by Creator/AkiraKurosawa. It is the sequel to 1961's ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'', and stars Creator/ToshiroMifune once again. Kurosawa had been writing a film adaptation of the novel ''Peaceful Days'' by Shugoro Yamamoto, with the intention of having his assistant director Hiromichi Horikawa direct the project. In response to the popularity of Mifune's character in ''Yojimbo'', the script was rewritten to have ''Sanjuro'' be the titular main character, and Kurosawa decided to direct the film himself.

So, you're Creator/AkiraKurosawa, and you've made a pretty successful movie, ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''. You had a good star, Creator/ToshiroMifune, in a role that he was born to play, and Creator/TatsuyaNakadai, a born Mifune antagonist, opposite him. Your story is so good that it will later get swiped wholesale by Creator/SergioLeone. You can't [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld go to Tokyo Disneyland]] because it's twenty years away from opening, so what do you do now? Well, a sequel, obviously.

Kurosawa had been writing a film adaptation of the novel ''Peaceful Days'' by Shugoro Yamamoto, with the intention of having his assistant director Hiromichi Horikawa direct the project. In response to the popularity of Mifune's character in ''Yojimbo'', the script was rewritten to have ''Sanjuro'' be the titular main character, and Kurosawa decided to direct the film himself.

While ''Yojimbo'' was a dark comedy about a wandering {{ronin}} manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'' (1962) is a lighter comedy teaming the same character up with ten wacky sidekicks, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole JewishMother stereotype only by being Japanese. Their mission: expose the corrupt official playing the local government like a fiddle.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sanjuro_1962.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:What ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} is to the ComicBook/XMen, Sanjuro (far left) is to these guys.]]

-->--'''Mutsuta's wife''' to Sanjuro

While ''Yojimbo'' was a dark comedy about a wandering {{ronin}} manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'' (1962) is a lighter comedy teaming the same character up with ten wacky sidekicks, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole JewishMother stereotype only by being Japanese.

[[caption-width-right:350:What {{Wolverine}} is to the ComicBook/XMen, Sanjuro (far left) is to these guys.]]

* WorthyOpponent: Sanjuro considers Muroto to be one.

Despite being a relatively rushed production (having released in under eight months time after ''Yojimbo'''s premiere and being based on a script that originally didn't have this character), it turned out to be a damn great sequel.

So, you're Creator/AkiraKurosawa, and you've made a pretty successful movie, ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''. You had a good star, Creator/ToshiroMifune, in a role that he was born to play, and Creator/TatsuyaNakadai, a born Mifune antagonist, opposite him. Your story is so good that it will later get swiped wholesale by Creator/SergioLeone. You can't [[ImGoingToDisneyWorld go to Tokyo Disneyland]] because it's twenty years away from opening, so what do you do? Well, a sequel, obviously.

While ''Yojimbo'' is a dark comedy about a lone wandering man manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'' (1962) is a lighter comedy featuring the same man with ten wacky sidekicks, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole JewishMother stereotype only by being Japanese.

-->--'''Mutsuta's wife to Sanjuro'''

While ''Yojimbo'' is a dark comedy featuring a lone wandering man manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'' (1962) is a lighter comedy featuring the same man with ten wacky sidekicks, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole JewishMother stereotype only by being Japanese.

[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sanjuro_old_2731.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:What {{Wolverine}} is to the ComicBook/XMen, Sanjuro (far left) is to these guys.]]

So, you're Creator/AkiraKurosawa, and you've made a pretty successful movie, ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''. You had a good star, Creator/ToshiroMifune, in a role that he was born to play, and Creator/TatsuyaNakadai, a born Mifune antagonist, opposite him. Your story is so good that it'd later get swiped wholesale by Creator/SergioLeone. Disneyland hasn't opened in Japan yet so what do you do? Well, a sequel, obviously.

While ''Yojimbo'' is a dark comedy featuring a lone wandering man manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'' is a lighter comedy featuring the same man with ten wacky sidekicks, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole JewishMother stereotype only by being Japanese.

* ButNowIMustGo: The Lord of the region offers him a job, but Sanjuro doesn't show up. The Lord reveals that he knew Sanjuro would never be able to settle down like that, and the young samurai Sanjuro had been tutoring chase after him to change his mind. [[spoiler:Ends up subverted; after having to kill his NotSoDifferent adversary, Sanjuro's too upset to stay, but he won't be venturing on either, with the implication that it's time to retire his blade.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Muroto and Sanjuro.

* BigBad: Superintendent Kikui, the CorruptPolitician out heroes are fighting.

Despite being a relatively rushed production (having released in under eight months time after ''Yojimbo'''s premiere and being based on a script that originally didn't have this character, it turned out to be a damn great sequel.

So, you're Creator/AkiraKurosawa, and you've made a pretty successful movie, ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''. You had a good star, Creator/ToshiroMifune, in a role that he was born to play, and Creator/TatsuyaNakadai, a born Mifune antagonist, opposite him. Your story was so good that it'd later get swiped wholesale by Creator/SergioLeone. Disneyland hasn't opened in Japan yet so what do you do? Well, a sequel, obviously but what kind of a sequel?

Clearly, since ''Yojimbo'' was a dark, serious adventure featuring a lone man manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'', the sequel, needs to be that same character with not just one, or two, or even three wacky sidekicks, but ten, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole JewishMother stereotype only by being Japanese. Oh, and [[BittersweetEnding the ending aside]], it's a comedy.

All that said, it's still Akira Kurosawa, so it's a pretty damn good movie regardless.

Clearly, since ''Yojimbo'' was a dark, serious adventure featuring a lone man manipulating two criminal organizations into mutual self-destruction, ''Sanjuro'', the sequel, needs to be that same character with not just one, or two, or even three wacky sidekicks, but ten, ''plus'' a character who misses out on the whole [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage New York Jewish Mother]] stereotype only by being Japanese. Oh, and [[BittersweetEnding the ending aside]], it's a comedy.

So, you're Creator/AkiraKurosawa, and you've made a pretty successful movie, ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''. You had a good star, Creator/ToshiroMifune, in a role that he was born to play, and Creator/TatsuyaNakadai, a born Creator/ToshiroMifune antagonist, opposite him. Your story was so good that it'd later get swiped wholesale by Creator/SergioLeone. Disneyland hasn't opened in Japan yet so what do you do? Well, a sequel, obviously but what kind of a sequel?