Tsubaki Sanjuro

International Title:

Japanese Title:

Tsubaki Sanjuro

US Title:

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Production: Toho / Kadokawa Haruki / Avex / TV Asahi*

Distributor: Toho

Japan Release Date

Japan Running Time

2007

119 Minutes

US Distributor: -

US Release Date

US Running Time

Staff
Directed by Yoshimitsu Morita Writing credits Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shugoro Yamamoto Produced by Shogo Tomiyama, Haruki Kadokawa, Kenzo Abe, Yoshishige Shimatani, Minami Ichikawa, Kazuko Misawa, Ryuhei Chiba, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Yoshikazu Kenmochi, Masayuki Motomochi, Yoshio Nagata, Akihiko Osugi, Kosaku Wada Music by Michiru Oshima Cinematography by Takeshi Hamada Film Editing by Shinji Tanaka Production Design by Fumio Ogawa Assistant Director Nobuya Masuda Full Production Committee Toho, Kadokawa, Avex, TV Asashi, Tokyo FM, Quaras
Cast
Sanjuro Tsubaki Yuji Oda Hanbei Muroto Etsushi Toyokawa Hayato Morishima Kazuhito Tomikawa Bunji Terada Tsuyoshi Hayashi Kunie Hogawa Ichitaro Shin Kawahara Yoshihiro Kasuya Takebayashi Morio Kazama Kurofuji Nenji Kobayashi Kakuzo Hatta Yukichi Kobayashi Iori Isaka Ken'ichi Matsuyama Koiso Eri Murakawa Mrs. Mutsuta Tamao Nakamura Mr. Mutsuta Makoto Fujita Shunpei Hirose Takuya Nakayama Kikui Tokuma Nishioka Kimura Kuranosuke Sasaki Chidori Anne Suzuki Shingo Sekiguchi Ryohei Suzuki Konoshin Morishima Kimito Totani
Monster Appearances	Aliens, SDF, Misc
None	None
Stock Footage	Other Points of Interest
None	Box Office, Soundtrack

Box Office

Release Date: December 1st, 2007 (Japan)
Total: ¥1,150,000,000 / $10,000,000 (Japan, Rough Figure)

DVDs and Blu-rays

	Region 2 Tsubaki Sanjuro Avex (2008)
	Region 2 Tsubaki Sanjuro: Limited Deluxe Edition Avex (2008)

CD Soundtracks

Tsubaki Sanjuro - Original Soundtrack
(AVCF-26521)

Background and Trivia

The Kadokawa Haruki company acquired the remake rights to both Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962) from Kurosawa Production. These rights were acquired for ¥300,000,000 (around $2,800,000) in 2005. Noted in Screen Daily.

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