2nd poster for Yoshimitsu Morita's TSUBAKI SANJURO (TSUBAKI SANJÛRÔ)

A second poster for Yoshimitsu Morita's Tsubaki Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô) has just been added to the official website for the movie.

As was reported here on ScreenAnarchy back on May 20, 2005, Tsubaki Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô) is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1962 classic Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjûrô). As was previously reported here and there on ScreenAnarchy, the screenplay for it is the same one that was used for Kurosawa's film, which was written by Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, and Kurosawa, based on the novel Nichinichi heian by Shûgorô Yamamoto. It stars (listed order corresponds to order on cast page of official website) Yûji Oda, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Anne Suzuki (Suzuki An), Eri Murakawa, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Ichitarô, Yoshihiro Kasuya, Kazuhito Tomikawa, Kimito Totani, Ryôhei Suzuki, Yûkichi Kobayashi, Takuya Nakayama, Morio Kazama, Tokuma Nishioka, Nenji Kobayashi, Tamao Nakamura, and Makoto Fujita.

Toho Co. Ltd. (Tôhô K.K.) is scheduled to release Tsubaki Sanjuro theatrically in Japan on December 1st.

Tsubaki Sanjuro poster #2 (96 KB JPEG)
Tsubaki Sanjuro poster #1 (60 KB JPEG)
Tsubaki Sanjuro official website