YOJIMBO & SANJURO
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Thanks to maybe the many memorable impression in Akira Kurosawa’s oeuvre, YOJIMBO surpassed even Seven Samurai in recognition when it was released. The masterless samurai SANJURO, who skilfully manipulates dual ready to fight clans to his own value in a small, dry village, was so entertainingly embodied by the shining Toshiro Mifune, which it was usually a make a difference of time prior to he returned in a sequel. Made only one year later, SANJURO matches YOJIMBO’s storytelling dexterity, nonetheless adds a covering of world-weary pragmatism which brings the twin to a stirring and memorable conclusion.
SANJURO: In Kurosawa’s machiavellian messenger square to Yojimbo, the cloyed samurai Sanjuro helps an maudlin organisation of immature warriors weed out their clan’s immorality influences, and in the routine turns their picture of a: proper, samurai on the ear.
YOJIMBO: To absolved a terror-stricken encampment of corruption, machiavellian masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a operation fight in between dual immorality clans to his own value in Akira Kurosawa’s visually overwhelming and darkly comic Yojimbo.Amazon.com necessary video
This semi-comic 1961 movie by mythological executive Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Ran) was desirous by the American Western genre. Kurosawa buttress Toshirô Mifune (The Seven Samurai) plays a flapping samurai for sinecure who plays both ends opposite the center with dual ready to fight factions, flourishing on his wits and his capability to outpace his own bad luck. Eventually the samurai seeks to discharge both sides for his own benefit and to conclude his own clarity of honor. Yojimbo is distinguished for the unusual diagnosis of assault and morality, renting visualisation on the actions of the main impression and instead presenting an interesting story with amusement and most visible excitement. One of the inspirations for the “spaghetti Westerns” of executive Sergio Leone and after surfacing as a reconstitute as Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis, this movie offers discernment in to a executive who shabby American drive-in theatre even as he was shabby by them. –Robert Lane
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Here are the pros. and conts:
Good:
* A character use a gun pretending that his hand isn’t holding anything (this idea inspired johnny Depp in One Upon Time in Mexico).
* There is blood and gore but is not THAT intense. (very similar to the movie Naked Prey in 1965).
* The wind blowing while Yojimbo walks inspired many japanese animations.
* The village setting inspired the videogame Way of the Samurai. (The village is the only setting in the movie)
* Cool moves by Toshiro Mifune.
* There are many suspense scenes.
Bad:
* No colors, just black and white.
* There are like 3 action scenes and only two were memorable, most of the movie is blah,blah,blah.
* No sword-sound when Yojimbo slash his enemies.
* There was NO snow-battle in the movie as I expected (I saw this calendar called Yojimbo showing a rabbit dressed up like a samurai with his sword fighting in the snow, I though that would appear in the movie.)
P.S: This movie didn’t have to be in black and white, the movie Samurai in the 50′s also starting Toshiro Mifune was made in good colors and the movie is also a classic like Yojimbo but if the director Akira Korusawa liked black and white then “bummer!”.
Adios!
Rating: 4 / 5
I found Yojimbo to be rather boring actually – the movie takes a long time to unfold – not as long as Ran certainly (which I have never watched past the first scene). Eventually the climax is okay, but this is not as entertaining as Seven Samurai or the Hidden Fortress.
Rating: 4 / 5
The single most important criterion on which to judge this movie is its interest level. For this, I give it three stars. It is interesting enough to be entertaining.
Hero enters corrupt town. Two warring factions vie for control of town. Both warring factions are evil. Hero plays them against each other in order to take them both down and restore the town to some degree of health, independent of the bad guys.
Throughout the movie, hero poses as a mercenary, just out for the money. But hero gives away his money to help those in need.
We don’t need a lesson in morality, so the only thing to base our review on is how interesting the story is, and it’s pretty good.
It does not deserve to be called one of the greatest movies of all time. It is not that. The Godfather Part One, for example, is a far superior movie.
So for those of you who like the name Kurosawa and want to place everything he ever did above anything American, sorry, but this movie by Kurosawa can’t be compared to Godfather 1.
Rating: 3 / 5
Toshiro Mifune plays a samurai who’s just lookin’ for trouble. He comes to a town, lops off some arms, get’s beat up, and then ingages in a battle at the end. It’s really hilarous watching Mifune chop guy’s plastic limbs off. Funniest scene: Dog carries a man’s hand around in his mouth. Tape is letterboxed and subtitled
Rating: 3 / 5
“Yojimbo” is one of the better known films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa because of its notoriety as the inspiration for Clint Eastwood’s “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964) and Bruce Willis’ “Last Man Standing” (1996). The film opens with a wandering samurai (Toshiro Mifune) enertering a town being torn apart by bitter business rivals. After being informed of the town’s situation by the tavern keeper Gonji (Eijiro Tono), the samurai decides to play both rivals against each other in the hope that they will wipe each other out. The plan works and soon the chaos he causes reaches the terminal point. When the samurai finally leaves the town, he leaves behind a load of business for the local coffin maker and a liberated and grateful town. Yojimbo does not possess the depth of The Seven Samurai (1954) and its jumping back and forth between drama and comedy is a bit jarring at times. Yet, the film succeeds in entertaining and lends credence to the argument that Toshiro Mifune is not only one of the greatest Japanese actors of all-time, but is one of the greatest actors of all-time period. Try and catch this movie on DVD because the clarity of the subtitles are vastly superior to that of the VHS version.
Rating: 3 / 5