Sanjuro (1962)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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What critics compared Sanjuro to
Similarly, the samurai showdown between Yen and Sanada, illuminated by red lanterns and accented by a Japanese bell pavilion, draws from austere samurai cinema—Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro (1962) came to mind.
Leone took his original cue from Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro films, which starred Toshiro Mifune as a wandering ronin who looks out only for himself.
It is almost impossible to recognize the iconically handsome Tatsuya Nakadai (the all business cop in “ High and Low “ and Mifune’s very different adversaries in “ Yojimbo ” and “Sanjuro”) under all the make-up transforming him into Ichimonji.
The Lear-type figure is Hidetora, referred to as the Great Lord and convincingly played not by Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune but by the protean Tatsuya Nakadai, a bad guy in "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro," and an unforgettable psychotic killer in "Sword of Doom."