Movie
Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki 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. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the…
↗ WikipediaShort comments left when logging a watch
No quick takes yet.
More from the same genre
Longform community posts about this title
No comments yet — be the first.
The grandeur of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa's legacy is reflected in countless careers, popular film franchises, and even a genre that was, directly or indirectly, inspired by his works. One such genre is the "spaghetti Western," which traditionally began in 1964 with Sergio Leone's *A Fistful of Dollars*, an obvious remake of Kurosawa's own "jidai geki" classic *Yojimbo*, released three years earlier and…More
