
Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. 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.
Top Billed Cast

Yūzō Kayama
Sanshiro Sugata

Toshirō Mifune
Shogoro Yano

Tsutomu Yamazaki
Genshiro

Eiji Okada
Gennosuke / Tesshin

Takashi Shimura
Mishima
Featured Crew
Tsuneo Tomita
Novel

Akira Kurosawa
Writer
Seiichirō Uchikawa
Director
Fukuzo Koizumi
Director of Photography
Koji Oshiumi
Sound Recordist

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Hiroshi Mizutani
Art Direction
Hiroshi Nezu
Production Manager

Akira Kurosawa
Producer
Daizo Tai
Still Photographer

Masaru Satō
Original Music Composer
Kazuo Shimomura
Lighting Technician