Yojimbo(Movie, 1961)

Name: Yojimbo
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1961
Duration: T01:50:00
Rating: 4.1

Original title: "用心棒" (Japanese/JA)

1h 50min | Genres: Drama, Thriller

Rating: 4.1/5 (with 592 votes)

Yojimbo (Japanese: 用心棒, Hepburn: Yōjinbō, lit. 'Bodyguard') is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard. Based on the success of Yojimbo, Kurosawa's next film, Sanjuro (1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family mon. The film was ... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Yojimbo

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black-And-White

About Yojimbo

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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Trailer for Yojimbo + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 2:56)

Trailer 1 (Trailer) | YOJIMBO - Trailer - HQ (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: Japan

Shot in: Japan

Plays in: Japan

Based on: "Red Harvest" (find it on Amazon)

Derivative works/Adaptions: "A Fistful of Dollars" (movie, 1964), "Last Man Standing" (movie, 1996), "Django" (movie, 1966), "The Warrior and the Sorceress" (movie, 1984)

Made by: Toho Company

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 25 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 04/25/1961

Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō, Eijirō Tōno, Kamatari Fujiwara, Susumu Fujita, Kyū Sazanka, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Tachikawa

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka

Screenwriter: Akira Kurosawa

Film Editor: Akira Kurosawa

Director of Photography: Kazuo Miyagawa, Takao Saito

Composer: Masaru Sato

Production Designer: Yoshirō Muraki

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Yojimbo – O Guarda-Costas"

"Ochránce"

"Yojimbo - Der Leibwaechter"

"El mercenario"

"Le Garde du Corps"

"Yôjinbô"

"요짐보"

"Jodžimbo"

"Yojimbo, O Invencível"

"Телесна стража"

"The Bodyguard"

Keywords: 19th century, fighting, jidaigeki, feudal japan, swordplay, sword, samurai, edo period, revolver, japan, asian western, gambling, family, bodyguard, intrigue, ronin

Color: Black & White (B/W)

2 movies in the Collection

1961 Yojimbo

1962 Sanjuro ("椿三十郎")

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