Yojimbo (Kurosawa 1961) m720p.nfo
Yojimbo (Kurosawa 1961) m720p
Yojimbo (1961)
Yôjinbô (original title)
Unrated | 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama | 13 September 1961 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/
Rating: 8.3
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides
to play them against each other to free the town.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Akira Kurosawa (story), Akira Kurosawa (screenplay) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai
File: MP4
File size: 856 MB
Duration: 1:50:51
Video: H.264/AVC 1280 x 544
Audio: AAC stereo 96 Kbits
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English, muxed (switchable); External SRT also incl.
NOTE: Please ignore the spurious second subtitles track.
Review by Jonathan Crow (allmovie.com)
Yojimbo is both a brilliant reworking of the samurai genre and arguably
director Akira Kurosawa's most influential work. Toshiro Mifune gives the
finest performance of his stellar career as Sanjuro, a bored, flea-bitten,
and thoroughly amoral ronin who possesses almost superhuman swordmanship.
Like a Greek god descending from Mount Olympus, Sanjuro comes upon a
village torn asunder by two rival groups and cleans up the town. Like Gary
Cooper in High Noon (1952), Sanjuro finds himself in a village full of
greedy, weak, and bad people that probably does not deserve saving. Unlike
Cooper, whose face grows grim with the moral importance of his act,
Sanjuro smirks with anarchic glee as he deftly picks one side against the
other. With a wry, subversive wit, Kurosawa marries his muscular narrative
to a swaggering visual style, aided by the masterful cinematography of
Kazuo Miyagawa. From the Sanjuro's final duel with young gun-toting thug
Unosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai) to the single grotesque image of a dog clutching
a human hand at the film's outset, Yojimbo crackles with a dynamic energy
that rivets and entertains. Though Yojimbo spun off a number of remakes,
including Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Walter Hill's
Last Man Standing (1996), none matches the film's technical brilliance and
dark humor.
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