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Yojimbo (1961)

Name: Yojimbo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: drama film
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 8.2

Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. 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…

Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Shot by Takao Saito, Kazuo Miyagawa · Cut by Akira Kurosawa · Music by Masaru Sato · Ratio 2.35:1 · 110 min

How it was made

After Kurosawa scolded Toshiro Mifune for arriving late one morning, Mifune arrived on set in full makeup and costume by 6am every day for the rest of the shoot.
Sword choreography and instruction were handled by Yoshio Sugino of the Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū school and Ryū Kuze.
It was the second collaboration between Kurosawa and cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, after Rashomon in 1950.
Composer Masaru Sato built the score around a deliberately discordant mix of traditional Japanese flutes with American big-band instrumentation, citing Henry Mancini as his main influence.

Elsewhere

More by Akira Kurosawa

Horse — 1940
Sanshiro Sugata — 1943
The Most Beautiful — 1944
Sanshiro Sugata Part II — 1945
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail — 1945
No Regrets for Our Youth — 1946
Those Who Make Tomorrow — 1946
One Wonderful Sunday — 1947
Drunken Angel — 1948
The Quiet Duel — 1949
Stray Dog — 1949
Rashomon — 1950
Scandal — 1950
The Idiot — 1951
Ikiru — 1952
Seven Samurai — 1954
I Live in Fear — 1955
Throne of Blood — 1957
The Lower Depths — 1957
The Hidden Fortress — 1958
The Bad Sleep Well — 1960
Sanjuro — 1962
High and Low — 1963
Red Beard — 1965
Dodes'ka-den — 1970
Dersu Uzala — 1976
Kagemusha — 1980
Ran — 1985
Dreams — 1990
Rhapsody in August — 1991

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