Yojimbo
Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once
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- Drama
- Thriller
Overview
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.
Keywords
- 19th century
- fighting
- sword
- period drama
- family
- japan
- black and white
- swordplay
- samurai
- grand
- gambling
- bodyguard
- criterion
- revolver
- ronin
- feudal japan
- jidaigeki
- business rivalry
- intrigue
- edo period
- asian western
- rivals
- middleman
- pitting ones enemy's against each other
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 25, 1961
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO
- Cast
- Toshirō Mifune,Tatsuya Nakadai,Yōko Tsukasa,Isuzu Yamada,Daisuke Katō,Seizaburō Kawazu,Takashi Shimura,Hiroshi Tachikawa,Yōsuke Natsuki,Eijirō Tōnoand 41 more
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cinematography
- Kazuo Miyagawa
- Music
- Masaru Satō
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0055630