Sanjuro, a movie published in 1962, was a sequel to Yojimbo. This movie stars same character as its samurai from Yojimbo. This movie suggests that in this modern world having wisdom is consequential. Sanjuro lacks samurai qualities and does complete opposite of what samurai are known for. This makes everyone question his loyalty but he shows he has great wisdom throughout the movie. He is just very smart and the fact he has capability of analyzing the situation to come up with a solution is inevitable. Similarly, the movie conveys it viewers a theme of “Never send a boy to do man’s job.” The presence of nine samurais who follow tradition and always try to do right things make this movie very entertaining to watch. This trait also glistens
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He goes as far as joining the enemy’s side to make things work out although he has obstacles in form of his own compatriots. From the beginning to the end of the movie Sanjuro cares less about making a name for himself and more about trying to make a living. This can be seen in couple of scenes throughout the movie. The scene where nine samurai are planning ways to rescue samurai’s uncle, they communicate every step enemies are making but Sanjuro sleeps it off. He predicts something is off and doesn’t seem to care as much. He doesn’t miss his chance of filling himself up even when he is working with Muroto. He takes everything lightly perhaps a small attempt to add humor to the story. This shows lack of loyalty in Sanjuro and nine samurai were too ignorant to think far ahead. They end up following Sanjuro in his tracks only to get him and themselves into trouble. Sanjuro being a smartest one, again discovers a solution but this time with a consequence. He has to kill all of Muroto’s men and he makes himself look bad in front of Muroto. But he is able to save his mates again. He’s shows up on both sides at once, playing the good guys and bad guys. It all happens spontaneously and everything always seem to work out for him. He slowly is able to gain trusts from his nine mates, but he prefers not having close relation with anyone which goes back to him caring less about making name for himself. When he had his plans accomplished, …show more content…
The nine samurai follow traditional way of doing things. Even the basic chores such as speaking, sitting and eating, they do it formally. This makes them not so smart, and they are partly unwilling to listen to Sanjuro because of his anti-samurai behavior. Little do they know, Sanjuro has been through many battles and he knows ways to handle it perfectly. No matter how much effort the Nine samurai have put it, in the end they end up falling to Sanjuro’s plan which worked. His plans are so well thought out, just handful of men try to overcome an entire empire. On the other hand, without the mastermind of Sanjuro, their formal and traditional of going about a problem could never take them anywhere. In the movie Sanjuro himself quotes,” At this rate by the time you find Mutsuta, I’ll be a silver- haired 70-year-old”. This shows how frustrated Sanjuro is over his men when they ruined his plan of joining enemy force and he is not confident in them at all. Even the nine samurais call themselves fool at one point. He hatches a plan that leads the fleet of army to a wrong place using false information that he himself provides to Muroto. This shows his ability of blending in anywhere which helps bring victories in peaceful manner. He tells the samurais to get ready for attack after the signal. However, even after they recognize Sanjuro as a scum and capture him, he makes his plan work. We see near the end that
He goes as far as joining the enemy’s side to make things work out although he has obstacles in form of his own compatriots. From the beginning to the end of the movie Sanjuro cares less about making a name for himself and more about trying to make a living. This can be seen in couple of scenes throughout the movie. The scene where nine samurai are planning ways to rescue samurai’s uncle, they communicate every step enemies are making but Sanjuro sleeps it off. He predicts something is off and doesn’t seem to care as much. He doesn’t miss his chance of filling himself up even when he is working with Muroto. He takes everything lightly perhaps a small attempt to add humor to the story. This shows lack of loyalty in Sanjuro and nine samurai were too ignorant to think far ahead. They end up following Sanjuro in his tracks only to get him and themselves into trouble. Sanjuro being a smartest one, again discovers a solution but this time with a consequence. He has to kill all of Muroto’s men and he makes himself look bad in front of Muroto. But he is able to save his mates again. He’s shows up on both sides at once, playing the good guys and bad guys. It all happens spontaneously and everything always seem to work out for him. He slowly is able to gain trusts from his nine mates, but he prefers not having close relation with anyone which goes back to him caring less about making name for himself. When he had his plans accomplished, …show more content…
The nine samurai follow traditional way of doing things. Even the basic chores such as speaking, sitting and eating, they do it formally. This makes them not so smart, and they are partly unwilling to listen to Sanjuro because of his anti-samurai behavior. Little do they know, Sanjuro has been through many battles and he knows ways to handle it perfectly. No matter how much effort the Nine samurai have put it, in the end they end up falling to Sanjuro’s plan which worked. His plans are so well thought out, just handful of men try to overcome an entire empire. On the other hand, without the mastermind of Sanjuro, their formal and traditional of going about a problem could never take them anywhere. In the movie Sanjuro himself quotes,” At this rate by the time you find Mutsuta, I’ll be a silver- haired 70-year-old”. This shows how frustrated Sanjuro is over his men when they ruined his plan of joining enemy force and he is not confident in them at all. Even the nine samurais call themselves fool at one point. He hatches a plan that leads the fleet of army to a wrong place using false information that he himself provides to Muroto. This shows his ability of blending in anywhere which helps bring victories in peaceful manner. He tells the samurais to get ready for attack after the signal. However, even after they recognize Sanjuro as a scum and capture him, he makes his plan work. We see near the end that