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• Actors: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Ichirô Sugai, Kokuten Kodo, Ranko Hanai, Ryunosuke Tsukigata
• Directors: Akira Kurosawa
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 4 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1.0
• Studio: Eastern Eye
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000C5IJM4
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #116,004 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the youth learns technique, he must also learn 'satori,' the calm acceptance of Nature's law. If he can balance strength and control, then judo may become the training regimen for the city's police, Sanshiro can gain respect from an old teacher in a jujitsu school, and he can win the hand of Sayo, that teacher's daughter, who is also sought by jujitsu's finest master, the implacable Higaki, who vows to kill Sanshiro in a midnight fight on a windswept mountainside.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The last frontier of the epic! , January 24, 2007

By	Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Akira Kurosawa in his first Opus when he just was in his early thirties (33) allow us to understand his mercurial vigor, untamed epic vision around what in hands of a conventional filmmaker would have been a simple story between two gangs. But here we have the incandescent flame of the genius, through multiple visual sequences; the shoes on the floor, the first sequence under the moonlight or the fascinating sequence - that I have seen it over and over - of the preceding storm just before the final battle.

An absolute must for all those hard fans of this genius.