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| | Yojimbo (1961) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote a novel with an American private eye as the stranger. |
 | | In 1961, Akira Kurosawa transposed this story to medieval Japan, after the fall of a dynasty, where a Samurai finds himself with no place to go (at the beginning, we see him throw a branch up in the air and walk the direction it falls), and no master to serve. |
 | | With cool music, a cool anti-hero, a fun script, and a visually spectacular canvas of an image, painted by the eye of an artist (it is said that Kurosawa storyboarded his movies in full-scale paintings), Yojimbo is one of the coolest movies ever made. |
| www.imdb.com /title/tt0055630 (642 words) |
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