Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)

Yojimbo may not be one of Kurosawa's most recognized films but is definitely a masterpiece like Seven Samurai, Rashomon, and Ran. A ronin by the name of Sanjuro enters a town devasted by two rival gangs. He claims he will bring... Full review

This is one of those films that you can watch athousand times and never get bored. With Yojimbo its got arguable the greatest screen action hero (Loene robbed him and created the man with no name which has created Clint Eastwood).... Full review

Based on Dashiel Hammet's fine books "Red Harvest" and "The Glass Key", Yojimbo has only Kurosawa's tendency to over-lengthen to keep from being really outstanding. It's still pretty good, though, with plenty of action, comedy, a very fine performance by Mifune... Full review

this is what started it. this movie is were your rough & ugly hero came from(well he's not ugly). This is the guy, that laid the blueprint for Client Eastwood. Plus with swords even in black and white it's pretty cool... Full review

the story about a master less samurai name yojimbo, he went to this town where there is 2 warring clans, the people got hurt in the middle of the clash. but he got plans to end all the suffering by, having... Full review

this movie is just wonderful, it is really understandable that it inspired another masterpiece, the level of the acing and the directing reaches new heavens... Full review

The acting was good & the overall movie was a great movie to watch. Its good for both adults & kids. Kids would think its funny along with adults. The movie got a B from me.... Full review

the story of yojimbo is one of the most innovative plots in film history. Kurosawa is a wonderful director with a one-of-a-kind style of film making. Mifune is pulls of his bad-ass role with flying colors that light up this black... Full review

This is not entirely true, while the story does borrow elements of the Yojimbo plot, there are enough differences to warrant it a fresh tale. It may be the language barrier, but I found it a minute difficulty keeping track of which gang did what, but in the end it doesn't seem to matter, the story is still kept simple enough not to get greatly confused. ... Full Review

Fortress once again teams Kurosawa with his favorite actor, Toshiro Mifune.....Moments of hilarity suddenly turn into very serious situations and vice versa..... ... Full Review

Akira Kurosawa 's samurai film Yojimbo is presented in a 2.35:1 non-anamorphic widescreen version that should please most fans. Yojimbo is a worthy buy for devotees of the movie -- otherwise, a rental is definitely in order. ... Full Review

Of all the great foreign film directors to obtain U.S. releases for their movies, Akira Kurosawa can arguably boast the highest number of viewers. While there's plenty of action and adventure in Yojimbo , the film contains enough dry humor that some have hailed it as a comedy. ... Full Review

Kurosawa is a master of filming adventure stories with themes of honor and justice, and Yojimbo is one of his most beloved movies, with fights, chases, and schemes aplenty, and enough time in between and during for building compelling nuanced characters. ... Full Review

Some 200-odd spaghetti westerns later, the experiment is complete, but I am not sure what I have learned from it. Spaghetti westerns are violent, sexist, homophobic, intermittently racist, sometimes funny, most often boring and repetitive - like all westerns, or... ... Full Article

They say they sound like: "math-sabbath."We say they sound like: A rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music with angular melodies and dissonant chords. ... Full Article

When Sergio Leone shifted the action of Akira Kurosawa 's Yojimbo from a windswept silk-trading outpost to a sun-drenched Mexican border town, he ran a blade through the traditional Western, stripping it down and opening it up, eviscerating its tiresome... ... Full Article

Question: It's commonly known that A Fistful of Dollars is a remake of Yojimbo . But I recall reading somewhere that the inspiration for Yojimbo was the Alan Ladd version of The Glass Key . ... Full Article

There are a lot of new anime discs being released, and Anime Talk is here to help you decide which ones are worth spending your hard earned shekels on. ... Full Article

This time round the pre-credit sequence serves up a decent plane-catching stunt and serves as a very effective set up to the main story. Then, after the last two films had electro 80's pop as their theme tune, we're back... ... Full Article