Which 1962 Kurosawa film is a sequel to Yojimbo?

Which 1962 Kurosawa film is a sequel to Yojimbo? Sanjuro is the sequel to Yojimbo.

Released in Japan on January 1, 1962, Sanjuro brings back Toshiro Mifune as the wandering ronin first seen in Kurosawa’s 1961 film Yojimbo. The character again uses an invented plant-based name: after calling himself Kuwabatake Sanjuro in Yojimbo, he adopts Tsubaki Sanjuro, meaning “Camellia Sanjuro,” in the sequel.

The project began as an adaptation of Shūgorō Yamamoto’s novel Hibi Heian. After Yojimbo became successful, the screenplay was reshaped to feature its popular antihero. Sanjuro is therefore both a sequel and a related adaptation, with less emphasis on the Western-film influence that shaped Yojimbo. The Bad Sleep Well, Stray Dog, and Red Beard are also Kurosawa films, but none is the ronin’s follow-up.