Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa’s debut, made when the director was only thirty-two years old, is based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita about the rivalry between judo and jujitsu. Sanshiro Sugata is a dazzling martial-arts action tale, but it’s also a moving story of moral education and enlightenment that’s quintessential Kurosawa.
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Ferdy on Films |
Review Journal of an Obsessive Completist |
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Based on a popular novel by Tsuneo Tomita that would have a half-dozen other adaptations in the next 50 years, Sanshiro Sugata feels like a foundation text not just for Kurosawa’s career, but also for the whole genre of Asian martial arts movies. -- Roderick Heath |
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This film has been modified from the original version of Akira Kurosawa's debut film, which opened in 1943, without consulting the director or the production staff. 1,845 feet of footage was cut in 1944, to comply with the government's wartime entertainment policies. As much as we'd like to show the original version, we were not able to locate the cut footage. Yet we strongly believe this modified version is worthy of rerelease. We thank you for understanding the circumstances surrounding the rerelease of this film.
April 1952, Toho Company, Ltd. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036400/IMDb Rating: 6.9/10 (890 votes)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Cast:
Shogoro Yano .... Denjiro Ookouchi
Sanshiro Sugata .... Susumu Fujita
Sayo Murai .... Yukiko Todoroki
Hansuke Murai .... Takashi Shimura
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Title: Sugata Sanshirô (1943)
AKA Sanshiro Sugata
AKA Judo Saga
Source: DVD / R1, NTSC / Criterion
Size: 1.172.927.216 bytes (1/4 DVDR)
Runtime: 01:18:54
Format: MKV
Video Codec: H264 (x264 rev.1471)
Video Bitrate: 1596 kbps
Resolution: 720x480 (Anamorphic, displayed at 1.33 AR)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 (SAR: 8/9)
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Audio Codec: AC3 (1 channels)
Audio Bitrate: 384 kbps
Sampling Rate: 48 KHz
Language: Japanese
Subtitles (muxed in): SRT: English
SA: HP @ Level 4.1 |
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