Sanshiro Sugata, Part II

The first film about the titular judo hero was such a success that Toho demanded a sequel from its director, Akira Kurosawa while also dealing with intensified wartime pressure from the Imperial government of Japan to produce material conducive to the Japanese cultural efforts to win the fight against America. What we end up getting is essentially just a repeat of the final conflict of the first film along with a shoehorned (but well-told, in a certain way, I must say) bit of anti-American p...