Akira Kurosawa's
Zoku Sugata Sanshiro
Sanshiro Shugata Part II
1945

directed by
Akira Kurosawa

A follow-up on Sanshiro Shugata. Kurosawa never liked it very much, and he's right. Still, an interesting movie. It has been made after Japan had lost the war, and very quickly too: released May 3. The movie is full of American extras and actors, made for one guaranteed audience. Our Hero wins every match against boxers Western style, using his own karate techniques. Now, if this movie had been burned, like its predecessor, that would be understandable. But of course it must have been pre-censored.

Somewhere I read some fool commenting that this movie was so bad, it must have been made by another man than Kurosawa.
I don't think so. Especially that tumble in the snow ending one fight, is typical Kurosawa.
But if the guy saw the same copy I did, I can at least understand his feelings.



Produced by Toho Co. Ltd.
Japan 1945

83 minutes, B/W, Academy screen

Credits:		Cast:
producer screenplay after the novel by photographed art director music by	Motohiko Ito Akira Kurosawa Tsuneo Tomita Hiroshi Suzuki Takeo Ito Seicho Suzuki	Suguta Shogoro Yoshima Dan Gennosuke Sato Yujiro Toda	Susuma Fujita Denjiro Okuchi Akitake Kono Ryunosuke Tsukigata Yokio Todoroki Shoshi Kiyokawa

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