Yojimbo

Yojimbo (1961)

用心棒

Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once

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.

Date of release
1961-04-25
TMDB
8.1 / 10 (1769)
Runtime
1h 50m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Akira Kurosawa

Casting

  • Toshirō Mifune — Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai
  • Tatsuya Nakadai — Unosuke, gunfighter
  • Yōko Tsukasa — Nui
  • Isuzu Yamada — Orin
  • Daisuke Katō — Inokichi
  • Seizaburō Kawazu — Seibê - brothel operator
  • Takashi Shimura — Tokuemon, sake brewer
  • Hiroshi Tachikawa — Yoichiro
  • Yōsuke Natsuki — Kohei's Son
  • Eijirō Tōno — Gonji, Tavern Keeper
  • Kamatari Fujiwara — Tazaemon
  • Ikio Sawamura — Hansuke

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