Yojimbo
Film
Famous Clint Eastwood Movies...start his own film production company. Heavily influenced by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, the film casts Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who plays rival gang families against one another in a frontier town. Eastwood would return as "The Man with... In this article: Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, Oscar, Unforgiven, Dirty Harry, Mystic River, Yojimbo, Million Dollar Baby, and Hollywood |
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | June 04, 2009
Film: Primer: Clint Eastwood
...Westerns. " The film took a cockeyed approach to the myths of the American West, balancing sardonic humor and cranked-up violence with hints of outsized emotion that would grew more pronounced with subsequent films. The film was an...
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www.washingtonpost.com | October 14, 2006
Clint Eastwood, Rallying 'Round 'Flags'
...it the same way." Full circle: He is in debt to the great director Akira Kurosawa because Kurosawa made "Yojimbo," upon which "A Fistful of Dollars" was based -- or, rather, from which "A Fistful of Dollars" was stolen. With his trademark...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Ira Hayes, Academy Awards, James Bradley, Iwo Jima, and Akira Kurosawa
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The Seattle Times | April 09, 2009
SIFF kicking off Polish film festival
...see www.threedollarbillcinema.org. Metro Classics continues its "Adaptations" film series with two Wednesday-night screenings of Sergio Leone's "Yojimbo" remake, "A Fistful of Dollars." Clint Eastwood stars, Ennio Morricone scored,...
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
Dollars Trilogy
...by Sergio Leone: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966 ) A Fistful of Dollars is an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo '' starring Toshiro Mifune. Although it was not Leone's intention, the three movies came to be...
In this article: Dollars Trilogy, Clint Eastwood, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone, DVD, Civil War, Mario Brega, and For a Few Dollars More
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Salon | August 28, 2008
The ultimate Japanese Shakespeare spaghetti western! - Beyond the Multiplex - Salon.com
...performance by Quentin Tarantino. It's got snatches of "Henry the Sixth," large doses of Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and bits and pieces drawn from Peckinpah's, Leone's and Clint Eastwood's classic westerns. Once you get past the question of why...
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
Samurai cinema
...movies have re-told the samurai movie in a Western context. Italian director Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing '' are both remakes of ''Yojimbo. ''Clint Eastwood's "man with no name character" was modeled...
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Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
Yojimbo (film)
...at when asked his name). In 1964 , Yojimbo was remade as A Fistful of Dollars, a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first appearance as the Man with No Name. Leone and his production company...
In this article: Akira Kurosawa, Clint Eastwood, Sanjuro, Red Harvest, Toshiro Mifune, Man with No Name, A Fistful of Dollars, Dashiell Hammett, and Sergio Leone
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
A Fistful of Dollars
...but engrossingly morbid, violent film." He went on to praise Eastwood's depiction of a half gangster half cowboy, and noted the plethora of violent spectacles as another distinction in the film. A Fistful of Dollars, although not the first...
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
Man with No Name
...No Name. A Fistful of Dollars was directly adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo ''. It was the subject of a successful lawsuit by ''Yojimbo's producers. The film's protagonist, a gruff, unconventional ronin played by Toshiro Mifune, bears a...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, Man with No Name, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of Dollars, Akira Kurosawa, Red Harvest, Sergio Leone, and Tuco
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Yojimbo is a 1961 jidaigeki (period drama) film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tells the story of a ronin (masterless samurai), portrayed by Toshirō Mifune, who arrives in a small town where competing crime lords make their money from gambling. The ronin convinces each crime lord to hire him as protection from the other. By careful political maneuvering and the use of his sword, he brings peace, but only by encouraging both sides to wipe each other out in bloody battles. The title of the film translates as 'bodyguard'. The ronin calls himself Kuwabatake Sanjuro (meaning "Mulberry Field thirty-year-old"), which he seems to make up while looking at a mulberry field by the town. Thus, "Sanjuro" can be viewed as the original "Man with No Name" concept, made famous in the Clint Eastwood-Sergio Leone collaborations, commonly known as the Dollars Trilogy.
- Name:
- Yojimbo
- Country of Origin:
- Japan
- Release Date:
- April 25, 1961
- Directed By:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Produced by:
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- Akira Kurosawa
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Written By:
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- Akira Kurosawa
- Ryuzo Kikushima
- Starring:
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- Isuzu Yamada
- Toshirō Mifune
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Yôko Tsukasa
- Cinematography:
- Music By:
- Masaru Satō
- Distributed By:
- Toho Company Ltd.
- Length:
- 110 minutes
- Language:
- Japanese
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