Sanshiro Sugata
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| 姿三四郎 Sanshiro Sugata |
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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Produced by | Keiji Matsuzaki |
| Written by | Akira Kurosawa Tomita Tsuneo |
| Starring | Denjirô Ôkôchi Susumu Fujita Yukiko Todoroki Takashi Shimura |
| Music by | Seiichi Suzuki |
| Cinematography | Akira Mimura |
| Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. |
| Release date(s) |  Mar 25, 1943 |
| Running time | 80 min 97 min (orig.) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Followed by | Sanshiro Sugata Part II |
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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. Set in 1882, it dramatizes the life of Sanshiro Sugata, the foundation of Judo and its conflict with Jujutsu.
[edit] History
The film was re-released after World War II, however, it was discovered that the film was missing 17 minutes. Today the lost footage has not been found.
[edit] External links
- Full movie online at Google Video (note: In July 2006, a Japanese court ruled that all movies produced prior to 1953 were to be made available into the public domain [1])
- Sanshiro Sugata at the Internet Movie Database
- Sanshiro Sugata at All Movie Guide.
- Review of Sanshiro Sugata
- Review of Sanshiro Sugata with stills
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| Japanese Cinema |  |
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| Films by Akira Kurosawa | ||
| 1940s | Sanshiro Sugata | The Most Beautiful | Sanshiro Sugata Part II | The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail | Those Who Make Tomorrow | No Regrets for Our Youth | One Wonderful Sunday | Drunken Angel | The Quiet Duel | Stray Dog | |
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| 1950s | Scandal | Rashomon | The Idiot | Ikiru | Seven Samurai | I Live in Fear | The Throne of Blood | The Lower Depths | The Hidden Fortress | |
| 1960s | The Bad Sleep Well | Yojimbo | Sanjuro | High and Low | Red Beard | |
| 1970s | Dodesukaden | Dersu Uzala | |
| 1980s | Kagemusha | Ran | |
| 1990s | Dreams | Rhapsody in August | Madadayo | |
