Sanshiro Sugata

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Sanshiro Sugata

Release Date: May 29, 1965

Year	:	1965
Slogan	:	«Judo Saga»
Genres	:	Action, Drama
Production Companies	:	Toho, Kurosawa Production, Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.
Director	:	Seiichirô Uchikawa
Producers	:	Akira Kurosawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Nezu
Writers	:	Akira Kurosawa, Tsuneo Tomita
RunTime	:	159 mins.

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.