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Yojimbo Sponsored by Mills Plaza Properties 1961 | Not Rated | Action, Comedy | d. Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa Japanese with English Subtitles |
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| Toshiro Mifune, perhaps Japan’s most iconic actor, is the strong silent type – and deadly with a sword. In this indispensable chapter in Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s samurai collection, Mifune plays a disaffected ronin (a samurai without a lord) who stumbles upon a small village divided between two equally matched and corrupt clans. Proving himself a formidable warrior, Mifune plays both sides against each other in order to release the town from its violent stalemate. Beautifully rendered in black and white, Kurosawa’s classic inspired Sergio Leone’s Western remake, A Fistful of Dollars, with Clint Eastwood in the Mifune role. - TS | ||