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This month’s film for the Akira Kurosawa Film Club is Sanjuro, Kurosawa’s 1962 sequel to Yojimbo.

Kurosawa had not originally planned to direct a sequel to his 1961 samurai film, but following the film’s massive critical and commercial success, his studio Toho asked him to seriously consider the idea.

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The only sequel that Kurosawa had directed before had been the 1945 film Sanshiro Sugata Part Two, a follow-up to his debut film, the studio-forced production of which he had not been very enthusiastic about. But for some reason, the idea of revisiting the character portrayed by Toshirō Mifune in Yojimbo seemed to interest him.

Perhaps it was due to Kurosawa wanting to correct certain aspects about the way Yojimbo had been received, or maybe he saw film’s financial success an asset for Kurosawa Production Co, his recently founded production company that now had a stake in Kurosawa’s new films.

Whatever the r