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Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that begins as a grisly and noisy parody of Hollywood westerns samurai-style, Yojimbo develops into a masterpiece of film making, and proves that Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest masters of satire...
Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that is anything but silent, Yojimbo begins as a grisly and noisy parody of Hollywood westerns samurai-style, develops into a masterpiece of film making in the grand manner, and proves that Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest masters of satire...
Yojimbo. In the movies, where every man is a genius until proven otherwise, only one director of recent years has not been proven otherwise: Japan's Akira Kurosawa. In Rashomon, Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood he displayed formidable powers as a moralist, an ironist, a calligraphist of violence. In Ikiru, one of cinema's rare great works of art. he revealed a rugged realism, an exquisite humanity, a sense for what is sublime in being human. Now. in a movie that is both a wow of a show and a masterpiece of misanthropy, Kurosawa emerges...
...western. When the film begins, the town is divided, just as the modern world is divided, into two armed camps. In each of them, like a land-grabbing cattleman surrounded by gunmen, sits a vicious little warlord surrounded by swordsmen. Enter the hero (Toshiro Mifune), a strong, silent, shabby samurai whose sword is for hire and no questions asked. He looks the situation over: sheriff bullied, citizens cowed, streets full of corpses, business at a standstill. Grimly he reflects: "Better if all these men were dead...
Well, why not? With grisly delight the samurai sells his sword to the first warlord, promptly betrays him to the second. Three men dead. Then he betrays the second to the first. Nine men dead. Then he provokes both sides to a pitched battle. Twenty or 30 men dead and the town in ruins. By hook or crook, trick or treat, the samurai assists the slaughter until, hilariously or horribly, everybody has eliminated everybody. With a grunt of solid satisfaction, the hero survevs the vacant village and declares: "Now we'll have a little quiet in this town...