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Yojimbo. 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.
Japanese: “The Bodyguard”. 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, and in turn ...
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Yojimbo. 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. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962.
Yojimbo. The Japanese action film Yojimbo (1961; in English, “The Bodyguard”) 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). Yojimbo was patterned after American westerns, especially the lone-hero films of John Ford.
Apr 10, 2005 · Yojimbo (1961) Rated NR. 110 minutes. Almost the first thing the samurai sees when he arrives is a dog trotting down the main street with a human hand in its mouth. The town seems deserted until a nervous little busybody darts out and offers to act as an employment service: He'll get the samurai a job as a yojimbo -- a bodyguard.
Filipski, Kevin, "Return of the Samurai: Two Akira Kurosawa Originals," in The New York Times, AR30, 24 October 1999. * * *. Yojimbo is possibly Akira Kurosawa's best-known film in the West, a samurai sword-fighting movie that, though entirely Japanese, still resonates nicely for Americans used to their own period gunfighting film genre, the ...
May 25, 2020 · Introducing Yojimbo. Yojimbo is one of Akira Kurosawa's most popular samurai films of the black and white era. On the surface, the story appears one-dimensional, but there is more to Yojimbo than meets the eye. Just like the main character Sanjuro, the film also hides its depth behind a facade of bold power plays and playful banter.
