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.
Directed by Seiichiro Uchikawa
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Cast
Yūzō Kayama
Sanshiro Sugata
Toshirō Mifune
Shogoro Yano
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Genshiro
Eiji Okada
Gennosuke / Tesshin
Takashi Shimura
Mishima
Kenji Kodama
Bokuzen Hidari
Priest
Daisuke Katō
Hansuke Murai
Yumiko Kokonoe
Sayo, Hansuke's daughter
Tatsuhiko Namisato
Daisaburo Hidarimonji
Kinji Matsueda
Yoshimaro Dan
Hiroshi Aoyama
Toranosuke Shinkai
Yoshirō Aoki
Yojiro Toda
Kanji Kodama
Kohei Tsuzaki
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