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 Yojimbo (DVD)
 Yojimbo (DVD) ... Nakadai ... / DVD released 06 November, 2000 at Bfi Video / Features of the DVD: Black & White, PAL, Widescreen / This semi-comic 1961 film by legendary director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Ran) was inspired by the American Western genre. Kurosawa mainstay Toshirô Mifune (Seven Samurai) is cast as a drifting samurai for hire who plays both ends against the middle with two warring factions, surviving on his wits and his ability to outrun his own bad luck. Eventually the samurai seeks to eliminate both sides for his own gain and to define his own sense of honour. Yojimbo is striking for its unorthodox treatment of violence and morality, reserving judgment on the actions of its main character and instead presenting an entertaining tale with humour and much visual excitement. One of the inspirations for the "spaghetti westerns" of director Sergio Leone and later surfacing as a remake as Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis, this film offers insight into a director who influenced American films even as he was influenced by them. --Robert Lane, Amazon.comNewest Review: ... survivors and rid the town of all of it's problems. The film does, of course, have a few off-shoots from that, such as ... more ... Sanjuro rescuing a woman 'won' by Ushi-Tora, a visit from an inspector which postpones the battle and Sanjuro's run ins with Unosuke, who seems to be the only person who suspects him and can match his wits, but the thats what the plot is built around, the wandering warrior who arrives in town and decides to sort out the problems.
If this sounds familiar, it's because hundreds of other movies have since used the same premise, for good or bad results, and this is probably the thing that works against Yojimbo the most - t...more |
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Read Reviews for Yojimbo (DVD)
Yojimbo (DVD): "A Fistful of ryo!" (1803 words)
by - written on 27/04/06 (Very useful, 172 readings)
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As scandalous as this may seem, the name Yojimbo doesn't actually automatically conjure up images of this 1961 Akira Kurosawa feature, but in fact images of a bipedal Samurai Rabbit named Usagi Yojimbo that I was introduced to via the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles marketing juggernaut. No matter what I do to try and remedy this, mention of Yojimbo will never, no matter how good his performance is, make me think of Toshiro Mifune. Instead all I see is a god-damned 6-foot-tall Rabbit. Purchased on the back of enjoying various other Kurosawa movies, most notably Rashomon and Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, despite being quite a famous name, doesn't seem to be as well ... Read the complete review
Two coffins … maybe three. (1261 words)
by - written on 09/01/01 (Very useful, 335 readings)
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Made 7 years after the better known ‘Seven Samurai’, Yojimbo was the second film Akira Kurosawa made under the auspices of his own independent production company, and was a deliberately box-office-friendly return to the jidai-geki (period drama) genre for which he was famous, after a dismal showing for his previous film, which was of contemporary nature. Starring Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune, the film features a rather bedraggled ronin (masterless samurai), who wanders into a small town to find it in the middle of a feud between two local gang leaders, Seibei and Ushi-Tora, both of whom are vying for power in the village and have hired gangs of ... Read the complete review
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