Yojimbo
Summary:
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 enemi... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Toshiro Mifune - (Sanjuro Kuwabatake)
Eijiro Tono - (Gonji the Sake Seller)
Tatsuya Nakadai - (Unosuke)
Seizaburo Kawazu - (Seibei)
Isuzu Yamada - (Orin)
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Review:
Yojimbo is both a brilliant reworking of the samurai genre and arguably director Akira Kurosawa's most influential work. Toshiro Mifune gives the finest performance of his stellar career as Sanjuro, a bored, flea-bitten, and thoroughly amoral ronin who possesses almost superhuman swordmanship. Like a Greek god descending from Mount ... Continue >>
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