12 Great Opening Shots
May 09, 2013
Film Info
- Japan
- 1961
- 110 minutes
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
- Spine #52
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.
Cast
| Sanjuro | Toshiro Mifune |
| Unosuke | Tatsuya Nakadai |
| Nui | Yoko Tsukasa |
| Orin | Isuzu Yamada |
| Inokichi | Daisuke Kato |
| Seibei | Seizaburo Kawazu |
| Tokuemon | Takashi Shimura |
| Yoichiro | Hiroshi Tachikawa |
| Kohei's son | Yosuke Natsuki |
| Gonji | Eijiro Tono |
Credits
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Screenplay | Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer | Tomoyuki Tanaka and Ryuzo Kikushima |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| Production design | Yoshiro Muraki |
| Music | Masaru Sato |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original Perspecta simulated-stereo effects (DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
- A 45-minute documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, featuring Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai, production designer Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami
- Theatrical teaser and trailer
- Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and comments from Kurosawa and his cast and crew
New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang
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