Sanjuro (film)

Sanjuro is the second film in the Sanjuro series. The film continues the story of rōnin Sanjuro, and was directed by Akira Kurosawa. The story follows a group of nine samurai challenging a superintendent and his army over the return of the samurai' kidnapped chamberlain. Notably, a scene in which one warrior kills another toward the end of the film likely inspired the highly pressurized blood-spraying effects commonly used in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill series.