AKA Judo Saga, Judo Story, Kurosawa's Judo Saga
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1.21 GiB
Duration : 1h 18mn
Overall bit rate : 2 192 Kbps
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Language: Japanese
Subtitiles: English (Screwed up for the time being, the subs are here on: http://www.asiatorrents.com/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=171ef44f707167f1c41f401e1af661ea103fc1cd)
Genre: Action Drama
Kurosawa's directorial debut. Seventeen minutes are lost to history due to Japanese WWII restrictions at the time. See for Wikipedia for explanation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanshiro_Sugata
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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Denjirô Ôkôchi ... Shogoro Yano
Susumu Fujita ... Sanshiro Sugata
Yukiko Todoroki ... Sayo Murai
Ryunosuke Tsukigata ... Gennosuke Higaki
Takashi Shimura ... Hansuke Murai, Sayo's father
Ranko Hanai ... Osumi Kodana
Sugisaku Aoyama ... Tsunetami Iimura
Ichirô Sugai ... Police Chief Mishima
Yoshio Kosugi ... Master Saburo Kodama
Kokuten Kodo ... Buddhist Priest
Michisaburo Segawa ... Wada
Akitake Kôno ... Yoshima Dan
Shôji Kiyokawa ... Yujiro Toda
Kunio Mita ... Kohei Tsuzaki
Akira Nakamura ... Toranosuki Niiseki