Yojimbo (1961)
Yôjinbô
Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once
110 min
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.
- Release date
- April 25, 1961
- Country of origin
- Japan
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Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Sanjuro Kuwabatake
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Unosuke - Gunfighter
- Yôko Tsukasa as Nui
- Isuzu Yamada as Orin
- Daisuke Katō as Inokichi - Ushitora's Rotund Brother
- Seizaburô Kawazu as Seibê - Brothel Operator
- Takashi Shimura as Tokuemon - Sake Brewer
- Hiroshi Tachikawa as Yoichiro
- Yôsuke Natsuki as Kohei's Son
- Eijirō Tōno as Gonji - Tavern Keeper
- Kamatari Fujiwara as Tazaemon
- Ikio Sawamura as Hansuke
- Atsushi Watanabe as The Cooper (Coffin-Maker)
- Susumu Fujita as Homma, Instructor Who Skips Town
- Kyū Sazanka as Ushitora
- Kō Nishimura as Kuma
- Takeshi Katō as Ronin Kobuhachi
- Ichirô Nakatani as First Samurai
- Sachio Sakai as First Foot Soldier
- Akira Tani as Kame
- Yoshio Tsuchiya as Kohei
- Gen Shimizu as Magotaro
- Jerry Fujio as Roku - Samurai Whose Arm is Cut
- Yutaka Sada as Matsukichi
- Shin Ôtomo as Kumosuke
- Shôichi Hirose as Ushitora Follower
- Hideyo Amamoto as Yahachi
- Shôji Ôki as Sukeju
- Fuminori Ôhashi as Second Samurai
- Toshirō Mifune as The Samurai
Crew
- Akira Kurosawa · Director
- Akira Kurosawa · Writer
- Ryûzô Kikushima · Writer
- Ryûzô Kikushima · Producer
- Akira Kurosawa · Producer
- Tomoyuki Tanaka · Producer
- Masaru Satō · Composer
- Kazuo Miyagawa · Cinematographer
- Akira Kurosawa · Editor
- Yoshirô Muraki · Production designer