Title | Yojimbo -blu |
Year | 1961 |
Time | 110 mins |
Genre | Action; Comedy; Drama; Foreign; Martial Arts; Thriller |
Director | Akira Kurosawa |
Edition | Special |
Format | Blu-ray Disc |
Actor | Takashi Shimura as Tokuemon; Tatsuya Nakadai as Unosuke; Daisuke Kat� as Inokichi; Hiroshi Tachikawa as Yoichiro; Isuzu Yamada as Orin; Seizaburo Kawazu as Seibei; Yoko Tsukasa as Nui |
Rating | NR (Not Rated) |
Cinematography | Kazuo Miyagawa |
Language | Japanese |
Plot | A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men. |
Producer | Akira Kurosawa; Ryuzo Kikushima |
Writer | Akira Kurosawa; Ryuzo Kikushima |
Subtitles | English |