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The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films of all time.
Akira Kurosawa
1961, 1h 50m, Adventure
Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Kamatari Fujiwara
Theme: Tatsuya Nakadai on Five Japanese Masters
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What made Kurosawa the consummate filmmaker, IMO, was how he framed every shot. No excess, no waste, no reliance on crazy angles or spins. Even the choreography of the fight scene was perfectly done–again, no wasted motion, spins, jumps, or fancy moves, just plain old-fashioned slicing. I can see where Leone took his cues from, and later on, Walter Hill, with Last Man Standing. But Kurosawa's version is the granddaddy of 'em all, just like The Seven Samurai was the granddaddy of all the "let's band together and defeat the enemy" flicks.
Pure perfection.
Any fool with a sword, or even a chair leg, can beat a bunch of dolts who just stand there and take it. Movie sword-fighting [roll them eyes].
Just came over from a “fistful of dollars” video. A commenter was absolutely savaged for saying that it was basically a remake of Yojimbo. No hot take there and he didn’t put down “fistful of dollars” or Clint Eastwood at all. Ridiculous. It’s great…Clint is great…Sergio Leone is great. But not like this. This is a better film. Mifune is incredible. And Kurosawa is just on a whole other level.
10 of them. They approach cautiously. They have a gun, a giant, and 10 swords. They are outnumbered.
Japanese cinematographers were so good at their craft, they were recruited by Shaw Brothers studios to film their movies. Hence the look of those films being superior to their competition.
Which one's John Belushi?
Dude just going ham on that prayer drum and then straight up draxxes that dude with his wakizashi, sklounst
Never had seen this scene before, amazed how great it is
Toshiro Mifune… the ONLY person man enough to rock a Manbun. Everyone else looks like a pussy!
Edit: Youpuke cautioned me, lest my comment offend anyone.
They hired a new dirt fan operator that day…
Hector Salemanca
Even more studly,
Fighting in shower shoes & socks!!!🫡💪🏻
Who was the big futhermucker who looked a lot like Shinohara Shinichi?
かっこえーーー！
Extraordinary film-making. Just pure cinema for the sake of cinema.
60年前子供頃全く知りませんでしたが、この頃の脇役は勢達者のおじさん達の宝庫だったんですね！
No blood.. even the cloth doesnt tear from the sword 😅
Uh.yeah. whatever you say.
if the guy with the gun knew what was good for him he'd have fired the moment he was in range
Kill Bill V.1: When he forgives the boy.
A fist full dollars: The duel of one against many. When he frees the old man.
The good the bad and the ugly: When he cuts the rope.
Then I found out that Kurosawa sued Sergio Leone for plagiarism. He won the lawsuit and made more money for this movie than he could for Yojimbo.
perfect