Filmed after Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, a dreary drama of corporate intrigue in Japanese business. Yojimbo was a transitional film for Kurosawa and the Japanese film industry and audience.
Kurosawa mixed comedy with action in a story that had it's influences back to Dashell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, a book with enough double crosses for about three novels.
As usual, Kurosawa used a lot of his stock company of actors and most importantly Toshiro Mifune as the bad ass wandering samurai.
Yojimbo is probably one of Kurosawa's best films and is certainly a one of a kind film that has been ripped off many times.
Screenplay by Kurosawa, Ryūzō Kikushima and Hideo Oguni, it runs 110 minutes.
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