Nope, “Sanjuro” was his best, IMHO.
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It's Dersu Uzala, with Kagemusha as a close second. No complaints about Sanjuro being in the top five, however :-)
P.S. His strangest movie was Dodeskaden, with Ikiru a close second. And I love watching his early postwar crime movies, it's like watching a triple-A pitcher you know is going to smoke the majors someday.
I enjoyed all 3, but “Yojimbo” was pretty neat IMHO