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Yojimbo

Release Date: 1961

Cast: Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Ikio Sawamura, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tono, Kyu Sazanka, Atsushi Watanabe, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Yosuke Natsuki, Daisuke Katô ...MORE

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Japanese Movies, Adventure, World cinema, Costume Adventure, Action, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, Samurai cinema, Art film

Yojimbo (用心棒, Yōjinbō) is a 1961 jidaigeki (period drama) film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a ronin (masterless samurai), portrayed by Toshirō Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords make their money from gambling. In Japanese 'Yojimbo' means 'Bodyguard'. A ronin convinces each of two crime lords, Seibei and Ushitora, to hire him as protection from the other. The samurai, in the end pretending to be on Ushitora's side, convinces Ushitora to attack. After a series of battles in which most of the henchmen on both sides are killed but... MORE

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