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In director Akira Kurosawa's comedic YOJIMBO, a masterless samurai, Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), wanders into a town divided by two warring clans. After displaying his formidable swordsmanship before both clans in a brawl with street thugs, Sanjuro offers his services to the highest bidder. When one clan conspires against him, the .. Read more

Starring	Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Seisaburo Kawazu, Isuzu Yamada
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema

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  Bo! Jimbo Selecta!!!
  
  This is a fantastic movie and probably my favourite Kurosawa flick. I think Mifune is in his element when it comes to playing charismatic ronin.
  
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  - Gonzo Soul
  - The Thoroughfare, Woodbridge
  - 07 May 2004 at 11:59
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  Blinkin Brilliant
  
  The best film to watch if you like Kuroswa now you know where Sergio Leone got his ideas for his westerns
  
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- - a customer
  - 06 Nov 2011 at 02:52
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  An Early Master Class In Classic Film Making.
  
  By seeing some early Japanese works, especially from this director, you can see how some classic filming styles, characters attitudes and story lines were going... read more »
  
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- - Freebee
  - 32 reviews
  - 30 Oct 2011 at 19:52
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  The original and the best
  
  I can remember watching this on TV years ago and loved it. I have also see the other remakes, from the western with Clint Eastwood to the Bruce Willis Last Man ... read more »
  
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- - Metaliant
  - 39 reviews
  - Walsall
  - 20 Jul 2011 at 16:38
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  Good plain fun!
  
  The first 'old' Japanese live-action film I have watched, I was glad to find that it sure didn't disappoint. Sanjuro is an extremely cool character ... read more »
  
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- - brianw4815
  - 122 reviews
  - United Kingdom
  - 15 Feb 2011 at 14:05
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  OK ... so how did Sergio Leone get away with Fistful?
  
  I came to this film because I love Sergio Leone, and heard that Fistful of Dollars was inspired by Yojimbo.
  
  Fistful isn't 'inspired' by ... read more »
  
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- - RedHerring
  - 11 reviews
  - London
  - 10 Oct 2010 at 02:38
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  Second division Kurosawa
  
  Coming more than a decade after Rashomon and not reaching the heights of The Seven Samurai, comparisons with either show this to be a very disappointing film. ... read more »
  
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- - Stephen
  - North Cornelly, South Wales
  - 21 Sep 2010 at 21:42
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  Yojimbo - My Review
  
  So much better than the string of spaghetti westerns this spawned (along with Seven Samurai), Yojimbo is fast-paced and has loads of interesting characters ... read more »
  
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- - DaddyTank
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  - Ulan Bator
  - 21 Sep 2010 at 09:46
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  Terrifically unwatachable
  
  The actors confuse shouting for passion. The director confuses violence for drama. The script confuses simplicity for beauty. The editor confuses MTV-like ... read more »
  
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- - BigMeUp
  - 268 reviews
  - Midlands, UK
  - 22 Jun 2010 at 07:31
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  Whos bad?
  
  This is just terrific, without writing a huge review you can't begin to describe how good this film is.
  
  Rent it or buy it - but make sure you ... read more »
  
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- - Spencer West
  - England
  - 06 Jan 2010 at 12:37
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  The original Fistful of Dollars - great!
  
  This is the film that Sergio Leone remade as 'A Fistful of Dollars'. A wandering samurai finds a town that is dying whist two factions battle for ... read more »
  
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  - 16 Sep 2009 at 11:05
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  Bo! Jimbo Selecta!!!
  
  This is a fantastic movie and probably my favourite Kurosawa flick. I think Mifune is in his element when it comes to playing charismatic ronin.
  
  ... read more »
  
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  - Gonzo Soul
  - The Thoroughfare, Woodbridge
  - 07 May 2004 at 11:59
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  Sharp as a blade
  
  You really could watch this classic movie dozens of times and probably find something new every time. Every time you feel compelled to sit through a cheese-... read more »
  
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- - Tim Turner
  - Manchester
  - 19 May 2004 at 18:06
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  Just another masterful movie from the master of masterful movies
  
  Akira Kurosawa's tribute to the western is a marvelous piece of cinema. Toshir? Mifune stars as a ronin (samurai without a master) that goes to a small town... read more »
  
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- - Nick
  - England
  - 27 Sep 2004 at 13:41
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  Silent but violent...
  
  Fans of Sergio Leone’s western ’A Fistful of Dollars’ will recognise many of the lines (“Two coffins cooper, maybe three”) and much of ... read more »
  
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- - StiltonChoir
  - Essex
  - 28 Jan 2004 at 17:50
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  Kurosawa's pure
  
  From watching some of his most famous movies, what I've learned is that you can never be sure quite what to expect from Kurosawa. One second he's making... read more »
  
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- - Noel Clay
  - Colchester, England
  - 05 Dec 2004 at 03:30
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  A cynical tale - sardonic and majestic
  
  Kurosawa's cynical tale of a Ronin (masterless Samurai), who plays of two rival village factions off against each other, is a sardonic and majestic mixture ... read more »
  
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- - Atom7
  - East Sussex
  - 13 Nov 2003 at 23:39
- - 4
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  Fistfulls
  
  Another classic from Kurasawa and Toshiro Mifune. Quite lighthearted in it's own way. Remade by Sergio Leone as Fistful of Dollars, so if it was good enough... read more »
  
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  - Northen Ireland
  - 06 Mar 2004 at 19:10
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  So it's old, in ...
  
  So it's old, in black and white and in Japanese. But it remains one of themost compelling action movies and spawned a million imitations, including Fist Ful... read more »
  
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- - Andy#19
  - LONDON
  - 14 Feb 2004 at 09:44
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  samurai epic
  
  If your looking for an evening of swashbuckling adventure then look mo further. Yojimbo is the original samurai epic set at the crossroads between feudal and ... read more »
  
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- - j
  - london
  - 08 Dec 2004 at 14:34
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  Bleak, brutal and gripping
  
  Inspired by Dashiell Hammett's story Red Harvest, and later remade in the West as both A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing, Yojimbo tells the story ... read more »
  
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- - Alex Morris
  - UK
  - 04 Nov 2004 at 20:39

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  In director Akira Kurosawa's comedic YOJIMBO, a masterless samurai, Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), wanders into a town divided by two warring clans. After displaying his formidable swordsmanship before both clans in a brawl with street thugs, Sanjuro offers his services to the highest bidder. When one ...