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Yojimbo
Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once
Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once
Drama, Thriller - 1961
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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. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Director:
,
Akira Kurosawa
Cast:
,
Toshirō Mifune
,
Takashi Shimura
,
Daisuke Katō
,
Isuzu Yamada
,
Hiroshi Tachikawa
,
Tatsuya Nakadai
,
Yōko Tsukasa
,
Seizaburō Kawazu
,
Eijirō Tōno
,
Yōsuke Natsuki

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
110 min
Release date:
25 Apr 1961
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 2 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Action-packed, highly comic 1961 translation of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
9 Feb 2007
fresh:
If the plot sounds familiar, it's probably because Leone stole it for A Fistful of Dollars.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Even Eastwood's Man With No Name is inspired, perhaps, by the samurai in Yojimbo.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
20 Jan 2006
rotten:
Despite the sometime appearance of the whole thing as a forthright travesty, it does have stretches of excitement and cinematic power.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
It is fair to say that, without Yojimbo, certain key aspects of Western cinema would not be the same today.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
10 Oct 2002
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