Film

Yojimbo

1961 · 1h 50m · Drama · Thriller

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

IMDb

8.2

Rotten Tomatoes

96%

Metacritic

93

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.

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

• Akira KurosawaDirector · Editor · Screenplay · Producer
• Ryuzo KikushimaExecutive Producer · Screenplay
• Tomoyuki TanakaExecutive Producer
• Kazuo MiyagawaDirector of Photography
• Masaru SatōOriginal Music Composer

Yojimbo (1961) Original Trailer [4K]YOJIMBO Trailer (1961) - The Criterion Collection

Release date

April 25, 1961

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama, Thriller

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