Sanjuro

[MOVIEGAFFER]

Who was it that played Sanjuro Tsubaki in the 1962 Akira Kurosawa film of the same name, was it Tatsuya Nakagai? or was it Takashi Shimura. I herd it was in fact Masaru Sato, which is odd as he died in 1959, when he fell out of a tree onto his flute. also who did the music for this film?

[mikewith]

If you trust the first English language site thrown up by a search on Google, and corroboration by the definitive all-purpose film refernce site, then Toshiro Mifune played the title role; Tatsuya Nakadai [sic] played Hanbei Muroto and Takashi Shimura played the role of Kurofuji. Sources: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/films/reviews/sanj
uro.html and http://us.imdb.com/Title?0056443 . The music is credited to Masaru Sat�