SYNOPSIS: 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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
By January 22, 2007
If we adapt the language of horse breeders to the genealogy of films, one might write Yojimbo, by Shane out of Scarface. But while this odd coupling does suggest the most obvious hereditary traits of Kurosawa’s Read more »
June 24, 2010
In its July issue, Sight & Sound tosses its helmet into the Kurosawa ring with its own centenary tribute to the immortal Japanese filmmaker. In an eleven-page section called Kurosawa, the Last Read more »
