Yojimbo

Yojimbo

用心棒

Genres
Drama Thriller

Release Date: Apr 25, 1961

Runtime: 110 minutes

Rating: 8.1/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • TOHO

Overview

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

"Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once"

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Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō ,

Seizaburō Kawazu, Takashi Shimura, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yōsuke Natsuki, Eijirō Tōno, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Susumu Fujita, Kyū Sazanka, Kō Nishimura, Takeshi Katō, Ichirō Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Akira Tani, Namigoro Rashomon, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Gen Shimizu, Jerry Fujio, Yutaka Sada, Shin Ōtomo, Shōichi Hirose, Hideyo Amamoto, Shōji Ōki, Fuminori Ōhashi, Hiroshi Kiyama, Senkichi Ōmura, Noriko Honma, Ryusuke Nishio, Naoya Kusakawa, Nadao Kirino, Mitsuo Tsuda, Shinpei Takagi, Jun Ōtomo, Akio Kusama, Yasuzō Ogawa, Hiroshi Takagi, Jun'ichirō Mukai, Takuzō Kumagai, Ichirō Chiba, Haruya Sakamoto, Rinsaku Ogata, Takeo Ogushi, Yoko Terui, Hiromi Mineoka, Michiko Kawa

Crew

Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima, Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa ,

Tomoyuki Tanaka, Masaru Satō, Kazuo Miyagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Yoshirō Muraki, Yoshirō Muraki, Reiko Kaneko, Teruyo Nogami, Hiroshi Nezu, Masanobu Deme, Shirō Moritani, Yoshifumi Honda, Chôshichirô Mikami, Ichirô Minawa, Masanobu Miyazaki, Hisashi Shimonaga, Chōshirō Ishii, Takao Saitō, Ryū Kuze, Yoshiko Matsumoto, Junjirō Yamada, Daisaku Kimura, Kôichi Hamamura