Yojimbo

Name: Yojimbo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1961-04-25
Rating: 8.077

Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once

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DramaThriller

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Director: Akira Kurosawa
Language: Japanese
Released: 1961-04-25
Runtime: 1h 50m

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8.11,716 votes on TMDB

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7.8

The story

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.