Yojimbo overview
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Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
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 "treachery," he escapes just in time to watch the two warring sides wipe each other out.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Studio: Kurosawa Productions
- Year: 1961
- Run Time: 110 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Adventure
- Filmed in: B&W
