Sugata Sanshiro (1943)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.8/10   

Réalisateur:

Akira Kurosawa

Writers:

Akira Kurosawa (writer)
Tsuneo Tomita (novel)

Release Date:

28 avril 1974 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Aventure | Drame

Plot:

Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.

Plot Keywords:

Judo | Jujitsu | Fight | Training | Police

Avis des utilisateurs:

Early Kurosawa

Ensemble

Denjirô Ôkôchi	...	Shogoro Yano
Susumu Fujita	...	Sanshiro Sugata
Yukiko Todoroki	...	Sayo Murai
Ryunosuke Tsukigata	...	Gennosuke Higaki
Takashi Shimura	...	Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father
Ranko Hanai	...	Osumi Kodana
Sugisaku Aoyama	...	Tsunetami Iimura
Ichirô Sugai	...	Police Chief Mishima
Yoshio Kosugi	...	Master Saburo Kodama
Kokuten Kodo	...	Buddhist Priest
Michisaburo Segawa	...	Wada
Akitake Kôno	...	Yoshima Dan
Shôji Kiyokawa	...	Yujiro Toda
Kunio Mita	...	Kohei Tsuzaki
Akira Nakamura	...	Toranosuki Niiseki
Eisaburo Sakauchi	...	Nemeto
Hajime Hikari	...	Torakichi

Réalisé par
Akira Kurosawa

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Akira Kurosawa		writer
Tsuneo Tomita		novel

Produit par
Keiji Matsuzaki	....	producer

Musique originale
Seiichi Suzuki

Image
Akira Mimura

Montage
Toshio Goto
Akira Kurosawa

Direction artistique
Masao Tozuka

Directeur de production
Jin Usami	....	executive in charge of production

Assistant réalisateur
Seki Nakamura	....	assistant director
Toshio Sugie	....	chief assistant director

Technicien du son
Tomohisa Higuchi	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Masaki Onuma	....	lighting technician
Akira Otani	....	still photographer

Editorial Department
Toshio Goto	....	negative cutter

Divers
Keishichi Ishiguro	....	judo instructor
Yukie Kikuchi	....	script supervisor
Kinnosuke Sato	....	judo instructor

Production Companies

• Toho Company
• Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

Distributors

• Toho Film Distributing Co. Ltd. (1943) (Japan) (theatrical)
• International Toho Co. Ltd. (1974) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Nihon Eiga Satellite Broadcasting (2006) (Japan) (TV)
• Madman Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Toho Studios  sound stages

Autre(s) titre(s):

Judo Saga
Judo Story
Kurosawa's Judo Saga
Sanshiro Sugata (USA) (informal English title)
La légende de judo (France) [fr]
La légende du grand judo (France) [fr]

Durée:

80 min | Japan:97 min (original version)

Pays:

Japan

Langue:

Japonais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Australia:PG | Switzerland:16

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Kyoto, Japan

Company:

Toho Company

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Yau doh lung fu bong (2004)

Early Kurosawa

Sugata Sanshiro (1943)

** (out of 4)

Sanshiro Sagata (Susumu Fujita) is a young man with a hot temper who is in Japan studying judo. His hot temper gets him into a lot of trouble but the Master (Denjiro Okochi) thinks that with the proper training Sagata can become one of the best men out there. This first film from the legendary Kurosawa was pretty disappointing from start to finish. I got excited when I saw this was part of the Toho company but the film really suffers from a horrible screenplay or the fact that the studio re-edited the film and this is all we have to view. Either way, it's hard for anything here to really stick out to where you'd say that this director had all these classics ahead of him. I think the biggest problem is that the film is clearly meant to be a character study yet the characters never grow. We see Sagata as a trouble maker and then, pretty much in the matter of minutes, he's a stern and likable character. Where did this transformation come from? One of the big scenes involves a police competition, which Sagata must win for his Master but he must go up against the father of a girl he's fallen in love with. Once again, when did he fall in love? We get one scene with the two and yet we have another large character change that never gets explained. The performances were pretty good and the final fight sequence was nice but there really isn't anything here that stands out on its own. The pacing of the film was nice and went by pretty fast, which was a good thing.