The stranger heads to the town where he meets Gonji, the owner of a small izakaya who advises him to leave. While stopping at a farmhouse for water, he overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son, not wanting to waste his life as a farmer, has run off to join the "gamblers" who have descended on a nearby town overrun with criminals and divided between two rival bosses. In 1860, during the final years of the Edo period, a rōnin wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside. It was unofficially remade by Sergio Leone as the Spaghetti Western film A Fistful of Dollars (1964), leading to a lawsuit by Toho. The film grossed an estimated $2.5 million worldwide with a budget of ¥90.87 million. Yojimbo received highly positive reviews, and, over the years, became widely regarded as one of the best films by Kurosawa and one of the greatest films ever made. The film was released and produced by Toho on April 25, 1961. In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family mon. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.īased on the success of Yojimbo, Kurosawa's next film, Sanjuro (1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. ' Bodyguard ') is a 1961 Japanese samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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