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Yojimbo (film)
Yojimbo (用心棒 Yōjinbō) is a 1961 samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a rōnin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)
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Yojimbo (1961) - IMDb
Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa. A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/
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YOJIMBO Trailer (1961) - The Criterion Collection - YouTube
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 advantag...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1iT_GmHTE
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Yojimbo (1961) - Rotten Tomatoes
Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, but Mifune is hungry and impoverished, so he agrees to work as bodyguard (or Yojimbo) for a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) against a sake merchant (Takashi Shimura). He then pretends to go to work for the other, the better to let the enemies tear each other apart. Imprisoned for his
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Yojimbo Movie Review & Film Summary (1961) | Roger Ebert
Almost the first thing the samurai sees when he arrives is a dog trotting down the main street with a human hand in its mouth. The town seems deserted until a nervous little busybody darts out and offers to act as an employment service: He'll get the samurai a job as a yojimbo -- a bodyguard. The samurai, a large, dusty man with indifference bordering on insolence, listens and does not commit. He wants sake and something to eat.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-yojimbo-1961
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The Criterion Collection - Yojimbo(1961)
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.
https://www.criterion.com/films/597-yojimbo
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Yojimbo on iTunes
Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy Yojimbo directed by Akira Kurosawa for $19.99.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/yojimbo/id475039271
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Yojimbo (1961) – Deep Focus Review – Movie Reviews, Critical Essays, and Film Analysis
Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo begins with a ronin, a masterless samurai who wanders here and there making a living by his sword, at a literal crossroads.
https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/yojimbo/
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Yojimbo | film by Kurosawa [1961] | Britannica.com
Yojimbo: Yojimbo, (Japanese: “The Bodyguard”) 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
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