Sanshiro Sugata

Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House

The Plot

Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.

Run Time

2h 39m

Genre

Action, Drama

Release Date

29 May 1965

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Kurosawa Production
Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.
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