1. Film Club: Yojimbo (1961) - Akira Kurosawa info
Jul 1, 2013 · Yojimbo is a genre film which plays with the conventions of earlier samurai films, drawing from works going all the way back to the pre-war classics.
The month of July is the month of Yojimbo (用心棒) at our very own Akira Kurosawa film club, as we continue to progress through Kurosawa’s chronology and related films. To get the party started, I have as usual typed up a brief introduction to the film. Background Released in 1961, only a little over half […]
2. Yojimbo - BFI Southbank Programme Notes
Feb 18, 2023 · It's somewhat based on Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest: all of a sudden there's this guy who keeps a personal code, even if he's not in a ...
Introduced by Asif Kapadia, season co-curator (Thursday 23 February only)
3. 1961 – Yojimbo - puzzled pagan presents
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The history of film is a fascinating thing. This project has really given me an appreciation for the odd ebb and flow of film, and the strange fact that some years seem absolutely overflowin…
4. Yojimbo (1961) | Japanonfilm - WordPress.com
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So much has been written about Yojimbo that I debated for a long time whether I should say anything. I have thus far not commented on most of Kurosawa’s more famous movies such as Rashomon, T…
5. Yojimbo (1961) & Sanjuro (1962) The inspiration for the Clint Eastwood ...
Dec 12, 2016 · Yojimbo, and Sanjuro movies directed by Akira Kurosawa, With Toshiro Mifune as the "no name" ronin samurai where watched by Sergio Leone he realized they would ...
Yojimbo, and Sanjuro movies directed by Akira Kurosawa, With Toshiro Mifune as the "no name" ronin samurai where watched by Sergio Leone he realized they would make a great western. So he made the low budget spaghetti western "Fist Full of Dollars (1964) staring Clint Eastwood it was a complete...
6. Review: Yojimbo [1961] – T H E _ C O R V I D
Feb 2, 2017 · Akira Kurosawa was inspired to make Yojimbo after watching a film noir picture called The Glass Key (1942; based on a Dashiell Hammett novel ...
Yojimbo, reviewed by the Crow.
7. Yojimbo (1961) | Review & Analysis | JCA - Japanese Cinema Archives
Jul 13, 2023 · Yojimbo is one of Akira Kurosawa most popular samurai films of the black and white era. · It might not be a realistic tale, but Sanjuro – ...
Kurosawa's Yojimbo | The Tale of a Super-Samurai!
8. Double Feature #38 – Yojimbo and Three Outlaw Samurai
Nov 22, 2017 · Yojimbo is about a samurai who goes by the name Sanjuro, who enters a town in the middle of a gang war. They both want him to pick sides, but ...
On this week’s post, I’m digging into a couple of samurai films. Samurai films of course come from Japan. They are traditionally centered in Japan’s feudal period, where samurai w…
9. Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo - MoMA
Sep 10, 2013 · The notable exceptions would be Takashi Shimura in Ikiru and several Mifune performances—especially Yojimbo. The film was inspired, according to ...
MoMA | Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo
10. Yojimbo | Samurai, Bushido, Kurosawa - Britannica
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Yojimbo, Japanese action film, released in 1961, that was cowritten and directed by Kurosawa Akira. It was inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s detective novels, including Red Harvest (1929) and The Glass Key (1931), and was patterned after American westerns, especially the lone-hero films of John Ford,
11. Kurosawa's samurai: Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sanjuro | BUDO JAPAN
It was created by one of the most important filmmakers in the art's history not only in Japan but worldwide, Akira Kurosawa, and it was one of three black and ...
text by Grigoris Miliaresis “This is Kendo, The Art of Japanese Fencing”I don’t remember when I bought it (probably in the mid-80s) but I do remember how excited I was: my first book on kendo -which I’d never seen live. It was “This is Kendo, The Art ……
12. Yojimbo (1961) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
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13. Every Movie Based On Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo - Screen Rant
Feb 26, 2023 · Released in 1961 to immediate critical praise, the film incorporated elements of the western genre and infused it with a specifically Japanese ...
Which movies were inspired by Yojimbo?
14. Yojimbo (film) | Action Movies Wiki - Fandom
Yojimbo (用心棒 Yōjinbō?) is a 1961 jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a rōnin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a ...
Yojimbo (用心棒 Yōjinbō?) is a 1961 jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a rōnin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie 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.[1][2] In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family
15. A fistful of samurai movie review (1961) - Roger Ebert
Apr 10, 2005 · In "Yojimbo" (1961), director Akira Kurosawa combines the samurai story with the Western, so that the main street could be in any frontier town.
Almost the first thing the samurai sees when he arrives is a dog trotting down the main street with a human hand in its mouth. The town seems deserted until a
16. Yojimbo (1961) Review | Cleats - Vocal Media
Yojimbo, directed by Akira Kurosawa, is a 1961 samurai film that has become a classic of Japanese cinema. The film tells the story of a ronin, or masterless ...
1961 Japanese samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa
17. How Yojimbo Became an Accidental Western - MovieWeb
Apr 14, 2023 · The film's legendary director Akira Kurosawa was inspired early on by the Westerns of John Ford (Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was ...
An inspiration to movies such as "The Man with No Name", this Japanese film stands the test of time as the accidental original.
18. Yojimbo (1961: Akira Kurosawa: Japan) - Kung Fu Fandom
Oct 17, 2014 · Akira Kurosawa is one of my favorite directors and Yojimbo (means bodyguard in Japanese) is one of my favorite films. I would consider this ...
"Mifune's Sanjuro and your Unosuke are like a stray dog and a snake." -- Akira Kurosawa to Tatsuya Nakadai Akira Kurosawa is one of my favorite directors and Yojimbo (means bodyguard in Japanese) is one of my favorite films. I would consider this canon for any budding cinephile along with several...
19. Yojimbo | The Definitives - Deep Focus Review
Jun 19, 2011 · In an out-of-court settlement, Kurosawa received 15 percent of the worldwide receipts for Leone's film, whose release was delayed until 1967 in ...
Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo begins with a ronin, a masterless samurai who wanders here and there, making a living by his sword, at a literal crossroads
20. Yojimbo (1961) | Obsessive Completist - WordPress.com
Dec 30, 2015 · This crime story was made into a Samurai picture in Japan, which in turn was adapted into a western in Italy by Sergio Leone called A Fist Full ...
Yojimbo (1961) is the greatest example of Akira Kurosawa’s international cultural connections. Yojimbo started life in the work of American novelist Dashiell Hammett, specifically The Glass Key and…