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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.
Yojimbo: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada. A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Jan 19, 2010 · To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage in Akira...
Apr 10, 2005 · 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.
Dec 26, 2020 · The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage.
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master (Toshirô Mifune), enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for...
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The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage.
Yojimbo. Jump to Edit. Summaries. A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan.
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.
In Yojimbo, Toshiro Mifune is a scruffy, unkempt ronin named Sanjuro ('30 years old') Kuwabatake ('mulberry fields'), who decides his direction by throwing a stick into the air and allowing it to fall. It points to a town that's in the midst of a small, but vicious civil war, circa nineteenth century Japan.