FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Yojimbo
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Scores
- IMDb8.2/10as of 2026-03-10
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer96%as of 2024-05-31
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.8/10as of 2021-09-04
- Metacritic93/100as of 2025-07-14
What it is
Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- Japanese
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