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Yojimbo

Original title: 用心棒

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

1961 · NR · 1h 50m

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

8.1

TMDB audience score
1,786 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Toshirō Mifune
    Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai

  • Tatsuya Nakadai
    Unosuke, gunfighter

  • Yōko Tsukasa
    Nui

  • Isuzu Yamada
    Orin

  • Daisuke Katō
    Inokichi

  • Seizaburō Kawazu
    Seibê - brothel operator

  • Takashi Shimura
    Tokuemon, sake brewer

  • Hiroshi Tachikawa
    Yoichiro

  • Yōsuke Natsuki
    Kohei's Son

  • Eijirō Tōno
    Gonji, Tavern Keeper

  • Kamatari Fujiwara
    Tazaemon

  • Ikio Sawamura
    Hansuke

  • Atsushi Watanabe
    The Cooper (Coffin-Maker)

  • Susumu Fujita
    Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town

  • Kyū Sazanka
    Ushitora

  • Kō Nishimura
    Kuma

  • Takeshi Katō
    Ronin Kobuhachi

  • Ichirō Nakatani
    First Samurai