Oeuvre: Kurosawa: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two - Spectrum Culture

Oeuvre: Kurosawa: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two - Spectrum Culture

It was a film he did not want to make. As a young director entering the Japanese film industry during World War II, Akira Kurosawa’s saw his fair share of professional disappointments and misfires, of which his third feature, Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two, is perhaps the most egregious example. His previous work, The Most Beautiful, was a propaganda film commissioned by the government of Imperial Japan, then focused on adapting the domestic film ind…