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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780022515
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780022513
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 29863
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: September 13, 1961
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
This semi-comic 1961 film by legendary director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Ran) was inspired by the American Western genre. Kurosawa mainstay Toshirô Mifune (The Seven Samurai) plays a drifting samurai for hire who plays both ends against the middle with two warring factions, surviving on his wits and his ability to outrun his own bad luck. Eventually the samurai seeks to eliminate both sides for his own gain and to define his own sense of honor. Yojimbo is striking for its unorthodox treatment of violence and morality, reserving judgment on the actions of its main character and instead presenting an entertaining tale with humor and much visual excitement. One of the inspirations for the 'spaghetti Westerns' of director Sergio Leone and later surfacing as a remake as Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis, this film offers insight into a director who influenced American films even as he was influenced by them. --Robert Lane
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Japanese Samurai and American Western Send-Up
Yojimbo is Kurosawa's most popular movie both at home and in the West & it is easy to see why. First and foremost, it's just fun. Combining cool, dry wit, black humor and rousing action; even those who don't "get" the mocking of Westerns or Samurai movies will find plenty to enjoy. Shorter than Ran and Seven Samurai, more accessible than Rashomon or Throne of Blood and more exciting than Ikiru or Red Beard. Yojimbo isn't a masterpiece, though Toshiro Mifune gives an incredible performance. ... Read More
Rating: - Yojimbo - Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine #52)
Terrific fild - I just really like this actor and this production and this story. Great fun!!
Rating: - Great Kurosawa...
A masterful performance by Toshiro Mifune, great dialogue, great direction and cinematography; A MUST SEE film which deserves your time.
Rating: - The Ancestor of the lone cool-hitman stereotype. A masterpiece in samurai films.
Toshiro Mifune made the first most important contemporary portrayal of the mercenary assasin stereotype ruling the collective imagery of all genres concerning action and thrilling crime-ganster films today. The dysfunctional sense of honor and selfishness carried by this lightning sword skilled hitman, mixed with the poetic, artistic and always then-controversial style and aesthetics of the samurai genre product of the talent and incredible filmic values-portrayal of the master filmaker Akira Kurosawa, ... Read More
Rating: - Let the Blades Speak!
In the early `60s I entered in touch with Japanese filmography when I was attending an introductory course at Buenos Aires' University. Since then I've come to appreciate Japanese delicate and sophisticated film language.
Outstanding director Akira Kurosawa author of "Ran", "Seven Samurai", "Dreams" and "Kagemusha" is also the creator of "Yojimbo" (1961).
The anecdote is situated around 1860 when the long period of the Shogunate was ending giving rise to the Meiji Restoration. ... Read More
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