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Yojimbo (DVD)

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A samurai drifts into a rural town divided between two gangs and proceeds to play one side off against the other, with events soon spiralling into violence.

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"I want three coffins... make that four"

Sanjuro, Yojimbo.

Yojimbo is the story of Sanjuro, a samurai in nineteenth-century Japan who drifts into a rural town and learns from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangs. He proceeds to plays one side off against the other, but his activities are curtailed by the arrival of Unosuke, a shrewd and ruthless man – the son of one of the gangsters. Events spiral into violence and the samurai must chose a side...

This classic movie was remade as For a Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing, and John Avildsen's Coyote Moon. It is paid homage to in films as varied as Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Miller's Crossing, is spoofed in Support Your Local Gunfighter and Mars Attacks!, and of course, had a sequel, Sanjuro, and a 'spin-off' in 1971 called Zatoichi to Yojimbo.

The 'preachiness' of some earlier Kurosawa movies is absent in this story of the mercenary Sanjuro played by Toshiro Mifune who, in typically mesmeric fashion, steals the film. The movie also features Eijir Tono as Gonji, the Sake Seller, Kamatari Fujiwara as Tazaemon and Takashi Shimura as Tokuemon.

"One of those rare Japanese movies that is both great and funny to American audiences"

The New Yorker

Extras
  • Moving menus and a full commentary by Philip Kemp
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SKU 5035673020197
Catalogue Number BFIVD505
Subtitle A film by Akira Kurosawa
Product contents <ul> <li>Commentary by Philip Kemp.</li> </ul>
Year 1961
Director Kurosawa, Akira
Format DVD
Publisher(s) BFI
Countries Japan
Aspect ratio 2.35:1
Colour Colour
Sound Sound
Subtitles English
Language(s) Japanese
Running time 106
DVD region 2
Certificate PG
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