Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro ...

Models of collaborative filmmaking, “Yojimbo” and “Sanjuro,” especially when taken together, remind us of happier days. Mr. Mermelstein, the Journal’s classical music critic, also writes ...