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		Film critic Pauline Kael declared it "a glorious comedy-satire of force: the story of the bodyguard who kills the bodies he is hired to guard." 1961 / 110 min.
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	Yojimbo (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This film, which starred Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake and is adapted from the novel by Dashiell Hammett is cited by Kurosawa as his inspiration.
		Yojimbo was later remade as A Fistful of Dollars, a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood; Youth of the Beast, a modern Japanese yakuza crime movie directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Shishido Jo; and remade, yet again, in a 20th century "gangster" genre, as Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis.
		Yojimbo created a new type of onscreen antihero in which the hero is seen as dirty and lacking manners instead of the typical clean-cut hero.
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	Yojimbo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Often Yojimbo were Ronin hired by the Yakuza and rather used as executioners and assassins than bodyguards.
		Yojimbo is also a 1961 action film by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune.
		Yojimbo is also the obscure moniker associated with Southern figure C.
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		Yojimbo was originally shot in super-wide 2.55:1, as evidenced by the cut-off opening credits and the film's trailer, which is shown with titles uncropped and the frame pushed down slightly from the screen's center.
		Yojimbo's box also assures us that it was "created from a 35mm composite fine-grain master." One wouldn't guess from the jumping frames and deep scratches of the opening credits and blemishes on several scenes, though the specks soon die down and the viewer is treated to a rich range of grays and shadows.
		Yojimbo's image quality surpasses that of the previous Kurosawa Criterion disc, Seven Samurai: From the tiny leaves fluttering in the wind as he first confronts Ushitora's henchmen to the pile of severed body parts he leaves behind, Sanjuro's harsh realm is shown with a clarity unseen since the '60s.
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	JapanCorner News
		Films in the samurai genre which deal with ‘ronin’; (masterless samurai), demonstrate strong elements of both styles as exhibited in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961), as well as the many films about the legendary Musashi Miyamoto.
		Kurosawa’s films greatly influenced the film industry in both Japan and the West – however during his career he gained greater notoriety and even support for his motion pictures overseas than he did at home.
		The Seven Samurai was the basis for American film director John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven (1960); Yojimbo for A Fist full of Dollars (1964) – the first in a series of 3 ‘spaghetti westerns’; created by Italian film director, Sergio Leone; and The Hidden Fortress which influenced George Lucas’ Star Wars (1977).
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	Yojimbo (1961)
		Thus we are introduced to the hero of this film, and at the same time shown that he is a ronin, a masterless samurai with no ties.
		Prior to Yojimbo, the chambara was a heavily stylised type of film, influenced by Noh drama, where the protagonists were characters who were not particularly realistic.
		It has been alleged that this is a problem with all prints of the film due to a glitch in the original recording, but this does not seem to be the case with the Region 1.
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	Last Man Standing
		As any true film lover would know, the reason I mention Yojimbo under the title of "Last Man Standing" is because LMS is a remake of Yojimbo; Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, and the start of the Samurai with no name’ Genre, which led to Italy and America’s westerns of the ‘gunfighter with no name’ genre.
		Yojimbo’s classic opening shot of the dog with the human hand is replaced by a decaying horse’s corpse.
		The great shot of Yojimbo up in the tower watching the two gangs face off, but both afraid to commit; The final showdown with the blade defeating the gun by a surprise; And of course the begging by the villain which leads to his last pathetic dishonorable moment.
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	Last Red Harvest Standing
		Yojimbo has been remade before, of course: A Fistful of Dollars is Yojimbo as a spaghetti western; The Warrior and the Sorceress is Yojimbo in a post-apocalyptic wasteland (to name but two.
		It has been claimed that Yojimbo was based on The Glass Key, another Hammett novel, but about the only thing Kurosawa took from The Glass Key is the beating of Ned Beaumont (without the sexual subtext provided by William Bendix and Alan Ladd in the 1942 film).
		Perhaps the most important distinction to be made among the films is the motivation of the main character.
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		This film is, without a doubt, one of the greatest movies in motion picture history and truly establishes Kurosawa as the great film director that he is. It would be hard not to credit Yojimbo as the most influential film of modern action movies.
		Like other Kurosawa film's around this time Masaru Sato is given the chance to compose the film's score; however, Sato seems particularly off during Yojimbo as certain cues actually detract from the overall enjoyment of several scenes during the movie.
		Overall, despite the film's sole flaw, this is still one of the greatest films in Japanese motion picture history, and I wouldn't hesitate to call this the second greatest Toho film of all time, only behind Kurosawa's most recognizable masterpiece Seven Samurai (1954).
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		Yojimbo is striking for its unorthodox treatment of violence and morality, reserving judgment on the actions of its main character and instead presenting an entertaining tale with humor and much visual excitement.
		Yojimbo is the darkest Kurosawa film I've seen yet (I must admit that this is only the fifth film of his I've seen).
		I have this film on VHS in it's original aspect ratio and there is a lot of space between the edge of the credits and the edge of the screen.
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		He never made a film in America, but his properties were coveted by the major U.S. studios, as can be seen by the number of Hollywood re-makes of Kurosawa's films.
		Fittingly, a mere three years later, Yojimbo was remade for more widespread Western consumption by Sergio Leone as A Fistful of Dollars, the movie that introduced the world to the "Spaghetti Western" and made Clint Eastwood into a star.
		Yojimbo does not cause viewers to ponder deep issues in the way Rashomon does, nor does it possess the epic grandness of The Seven Samurai, yet it must still be considered in the top tier of Kurosawa's films.
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	Yojimbo (1961)
		It also happens to be a brilliant film featuring a ludicrous collection of genre caricatures, a grim and tense plot, and a terrific performance by Toshiro Mifune who scratches and chews his way through the scenery while oozing charisma.
		Despite this, the film is not particularly deep or sweeping.
		The film presents these and other situations that draw the viewer in, enhancing struggles that otherwise would be considered too short to satisfy.
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	Cashiers du Cinemart Issue 6
		Yojimbo might appear as just a shiftless, money-grubbing ronin opportunist, but there is always a bit of moral motivation behind his actions.
		Yojimbo simply means "bodyguard." When asked what his name is in YOJIMBO, he looks out the open door and says his name is "Mulberry Bush." And in SANJURO, he changes it to Camellia Sanjuro (camellia thirty years old).
		Yojimbo catches the object and holds it for a few seconds before letting it go, thus making Zatoichi panic and think that if his grasp doesn't hold that he'll fall a few stories and not the four feet to the ground.
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	Yojimbo: Study of a Disintegrating Society
		The end of the Tokugawa period (1), where the film Yojimbo is set, and the beginning of the post-war economic recovery, the so-called Japanese economic miracle, when the film was made, represent two of the most important moments of drastic political, economical and social changes in the history of Japan.
		Later on in the film Yoichiro, after being kidnapped by the rival gang and returned in exchange for the sake dealer's concubine, kidnapped by his parents' gang, is slapped by his mother and scolded again for not having committed suicide and for causing so much trouble to his parents.
		In this aspect, Yojimbo could the predecessor of Nagisha Oshima's film Boy (Shonen, 1969) considered by Mellen as one of the bitterest satires ever to be made on the Japanese family.
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	Yojimbo
		Yojimbo was shorter than the other tape (Seven Samurai) so I watched it first.
		Percussive instruments dominate the soundtrack, supplying the film with a wild, untamed energy that is matched by many of the diegetic sounds (wooden doors opening and closing, paddle druming, feet sprinting on floorboards).
		Yojimbo is an all-time classic that is easy to watch and enjoy, especially with ample pots of sake.
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	Yojimbo (1961)
		Revealing mistakes: When Sanjuro practices throwing the knife at a leaf, the wire on the knife is clearly visible (the scene was filmed backwards; the knife was actually pulled off the leaf by the wire).
		His presence is felt all throughout the film even when he isn't on camera.
		All film buffs should watch this film, it is a perfect example of a director and actor with confidence in their craft.
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	MBC \| The Yojimbo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first Yojimbo was a liner-lock folder with an O-1 tool steel blade and ambidextrous thumb stud that I made myself to illustrate and validate its concept.
		To accelerate the process and fuel public interest in the Yojimbo design, I asked Mike Snody to make a handmade prototype of the knife in late 2002.
		The Yojimbo is listed in the 2004 Spyderco catalog; however, as of January 2004, it is still undergoing final pilot-run testing to ensure the maximum possible strength from its compression-lock design.
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	Yojimbo :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies
		In "Yojimbo" (1961), director Akira Kurosawa combines the samurai story with the Western, so that the main street could be in any frontier town, the samurai could be a gunslinger, and the locals could have been lifted from John Ford's stock company.
		In between, the townspeople cower behind closed shutters and locked doors, and the film's visuals alternate between the emptiness of the windswept street, shots looking out through the slats of shutters and the chinks in walls, and shots from outdoors showing people peering through their shutters.
		Richie believes "Yojimbo" is the best-photographed of Kurosawa's films (by Kazuo Miyagawa, who also shot "Rashomon" and such other Japanese classics as Ozu's "Floating Weeds" and Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu").
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		In this film, a son released in a prisoner exchange runs to his mother and cries out "mother" and she slaps him several times across the face.
		Later in the film one of the gangsters is about to be killed and calls out "mother" in the normal way, but it is now revitalized by the previous use of the cry.
		The film also uses many close-ups shot with a telephoto lens (which foreshortens the distance between the main subject and background) and places the person in the scene in ways that tie people into their surroundings.
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	#63: Yojimbo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And, while the film's audience has been limited only to those who are willing to sit through a movie with subtitles, nearly everyone who has seen Yojimbo and its better-known remake, A Fistful of Dollars, agrees that the former picture is the superior one.
		The film was then re-made as a genuine Western, the success of which resulted in a new boom of the genre that took it through the 1960s and into the 1970s.
		Yojimbo never takes itself too seriously, and does not cause viewers to ponder deep issues in the way Rashomon does, nor does it possess the epic grandness of The Seven Samurai, yet it must still be considered in the top tier of Kurosawa's films.
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		Hanzo ain't afraid of no ghosts and he shows up and immediately learns that the ghost is all flesh and blood woman (guess how he figures that out) and that she's part of a conspiracy that's sucking gold out of the treasury and into the haunted pond.
		Yojimbo arrives with Okini, a woman he saved from an abusive husband and drops her off now that she's safe.
		Yojimbo and a hesitant Gentetsu nurse them back to health and that's just about when the film really kicks in and all hell breaks loose.
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	Yojimbo (1961)
		Yojimbo is a triumph of realisation for Akira Kurosawa, both in its direction and script.
		Technically, Yojimbo is fully under the control of Kurosawa, in everything from spatial positioning of the on-screen figures to the incidental sound effects.
		Yojimbo is a truly memorable creation which partially explains how it crosses cultural borders so successfully, appealing to universal themes.
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	Yojimbo Film Movie Review
		Yojimbo is a classic and you can feel the strength of the movie from the opening scenes...
		Yojimbo's samurai is a clear reflection of Han Solo, the scruffy rogue...
		Yojimbo is a treat to watch in the cinema, appreciating the old school effect, the great sets and lighting, fabulous camera movements...
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	LOVEFiLM.com: Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa on DVD
		Throughout the entire film, Sanjuro is vigilant yet stoic, conceding that he finds the scenario entertaining and absurd, and essentially has nothing to lose.
		Yojimbo lacks the depth of some of Kurosawa's other films, such as Rashomon or Seven Samurai, but it is, on the whole, more entertaining and much more accessible than those two mentioned films, and most of the rest of Kurosawa's oeuvre.
		That's not all Yojimbo has had an impact on; the Spaghetti western sub-genre is littered with influence from this film, and even recent favourites such as Kill Bill have obviously taken influence from this masterpiece.
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		The ‘essential ingredients’ of a film noir are described as: specific location or setting, high-contrast lighting, and low-key lighting, a particular psychology associated with the protagonist, and a sense of social malaise, pessimism, suspicion, and gloom (1).
		As Yojimbo begins, we are presented with a scene of the mountainous terrain that the protagonist faces (Figure 6), as he wanders about the land, from one pocket of civilization to another.
		Yojimbo is a cinematic result of these factors; similar to those that gave rise to the Western genre in the United States.
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	The Criterion Collection: Yojimbo
		But while this odd coupling does suggest the most obvious hereditary traits of Kurosawa’s fl comedy, it fails to capture the joy with which he demolishes the clichés of the venerable genres he has appropriated.
		Each was original in style, technically brilliant and visually arresting— films often suffused with moral purpose and social significance.
		Yojimbo comes as a sort of anticlimax at the end of this prodigious decade.
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