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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.
- ¥90.87 million
- Masaru Sato
- 25 April 1961 (Japan)
- Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ryūzō Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
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 Yojimbo inspired Italian “spaghetti westerns,” notably Sergio Leone’s ...
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Sep 10, 2013 · Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo. 1961. Japan. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa’s genius for visual rhythms, camera movement, composition, and editing often prevented a single character/actor from dominating a film. The notable exceptions would be Takashi Shimura in Ikiru and several Mifune performances—especially Yojimbo.
May 25, 2020 · 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.
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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 ...
