Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. 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 newcomer as a bodyguard.
Plot
In 1860, during the final years of the Edo period, a rōnin wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside. Coming to a fork in the road, he chooses which path to take at random by thowing a branch onto the ground and following the path that it points towards.
More details
| author | Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni Ryūzō Kikushima |
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| director | Akira Kurosawa |
| editor | Akira Kurosawa |
| genre | action crime drama |
| keywords | bakumatsu beat bugyō burn capture chattel driven mad edo period elderly couple expect fight final years gambling debt gang war government official izakaya kidnap kill morning morus mulberry field personal property rōnin safe house sake set on fire stab young man |
| musicBy | Masaru Sato |
| producer | Akira Kurosawa Ryūzō Kikushima Tomoyuki Tanaka |
| productionCompany | Kurosawa Production Toho |
| publisher | Toho |
| theme | action drama japanese jidaigeki yakuza |