Sanjuro, the main character, helps a group of samurais against soldiers of a liar that want to obtain political power making his opponents seem in fault. The group of samurais act often without an intelligent strategy, so Sanjuro, at first a stranger in the situation, becomes little by little a kind of deus ex machina that manages to resolve bad situations: all problems of the plot are linked to strategical lying and what's determinant is always understand who's really who and if signals mean something instead of other. Than "Sanjuro" reveals the thin meaningless of war and violent actions, that seem all degenerated behaviours around a narrative center that's overrated and incomprehensible. In this concept, samurais can't understand really their position or the sense of their life and of political facts, and the only one that understands, Sanjuro, coherently, decides to go away.
Review of Sanjuro
