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Yojimbo (Japanese: 用心棒, Hepburn: Yōjinbō, lit. ' Bodyguard ') is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe.
- ¥90.87 million
- Masaru Sato
- 25 April 1961 (Japan)
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ryūzō Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Yojimbo (用心棒, Yōjinbō, "Bodyguard") is a 1961 Japanese action drama movie directed by Akira Kurosawa and is followed up by the 1962 movie Sanjuro. It stars Toshiro Mifune , Tatsuya Nakadai , Yoko Tsukasa , Isuzu Yamada , Daisuke Katō and was distributed by Toho .
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Cast. Production. Release. Box office. Reception. In popular culture. Remake. References. Sources. External links. Sanjuro ( Japanese: 椿三十郎, Hepburn: Tsubaki Sanjūrō) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo. [2]
- January 1, 1962 (Japan)
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ryūzō Kikushima
373,592+ tickets (EU) [citation needed] Rashomon ( Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Jidaigeki drama film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. [2]
- Minoru Jingo
- Fumio Hayasaka
- August 25, 1950
Yojimbo, Japanese action film, released in 1961, that was cowritten and directed by Kurosawa Akira. It was inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s detective novels, including Red Harvest (1929) and The Glass Key (1931), and was patterned after American westerns, especially the lone-hero films of John Ford,
- Lee Pfeiffer
Apr 10, 2005 · Roger Ebert April 10, 2005. Tweet. In "Yojimbo" (1961), director Akira Kurosawa combines the samurai story with the Western, so that the main street could be in any frontier town, the samurai could be a gunslinger, and the locals could have been lifted from John Ford's stock company. The great Toshiro Mifune plays virtually the same character ...
Overview. A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade.
