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Yojimbo 1961 123movies

Yojimbo 1961 123movies

Seven Samurai if it Was Just One Samurai!Apr. 25, 1961110 Min.
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Watch: 用心棒 1961 123movies, Full Movie Online – Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke, the son of one of the gangsters, who owns a revolver. Unosuke has Sanjuro beaten after he reunites an abducted woman with her husband and son, then massacres his father’s opponents. During the slaughter, the samurai escapes with the help of the innkeeper; but while recuperating at a nearby temple, he learns of innkeeper’s abduction by Unosuke, and returns to the town to confront him..
Plot: 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.
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Great movie!

Akira Kurosawa is just a master movie maker.

Review By: Andres Gomez

Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 film YOJIMBO is a Japanese period drama where wily strategy is worth just as much as prowess with a sword. In the late Edo era (some decades before its end in 1868) a community is plagued by two opposing gangs who have built up a criminal empire of prostitution and gambling. Even the local officials are on the take. Into this town steps a nameless samurai (Toshiro Mifune). Once they get a taste of his swordsmanship, both sides want to hire him, but he decides to play them off against each other and free the innocent citizens from this evil.

In past films Kurosawa had taken advantage of Mifune’s ability to produce exaggerated facial expressions of laughter and fear. Here, however, the nameless samurai is completely unflappable, while it is the criminal bosses and corrupt officials who play the clowns. Ikio Sawamura is a town constable constantly toadying to the gangsters, for example, while Isuzu Yamada gives a memorably sassy performance as the madame of a brothel. In what would become a convention of the Japanese period drama, the numerous henchmen in the gangs were apparently chosen from the most grotesque men that Kurosawa could find (each furthermore has distinctively ratty attire), and one thug is played by an actor suffering from gigantism.

That darkly comedic drama between the characters coexists with brutal violence. Yet, while audiences may have been shocked in 1961 by the samurai dispatching his opponents with realistic slashing sound effects and a hacked off limb, there are only a handful of fights here, and they are all over in a flash. (Indeed, one of the most striking aspects of Mifune’s acting is his speed in executing the sword moves.) While Kurosawa delights in gangsters getting their comeuppance, he doesn’t revel in gore.

Much has been said about how this Japanese film would inspire Westerns made in America and Europe (Sergio Leone’s A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS was a straight-up remake). However, the film is also interesting for how it draws so much on influences from the West. Kurosawa’s inspiration was an American crime caper by Dashiell Hammett, the samurai’s walk down the main street is drawn from the Westerns of John Ford and others, the soundtrack mixes Japanese music with Western instruments such as harpsichord, and Tatsuya Nakadai’s pretty-boy looks are clearly modeled on Hollywood.

All in all, I was very impressed by this film. Everything here – from the script and aspect to little things like the wind and dust and the little decorations on the set – seems the result of great effort and talent, all coming together to impress the viewer. And like Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, it stays fresh even as its elements have been repeatedly reused by other film and television productions for half a century now.

Review By: CRCulver
First class samurai action tale with philosophy to boot
Classic samurai action pic; often imitated but never equalled. Mifune creates a memorable character (who appeared in a sequel) in the Ronin who decides the course of his life on the toss of a stick, and ends up risking his life to save a village full of peasants he finds revolting. It’s possible to see “Yojimbo’s” actions as either heroic or as the game of a bored warrior in need of amusement — as often in Kurosawa’s films, the fact that the characters’ motives remain open to interpretation adds depth to the film.

Wonderful images, and skillful direction that keeps the pace of the storytelling tight and tells most of the story through images — this is the kind of film that is so good it can be watched a silent film without losing too much of its impact or meaning.

I think that if Kurosawa had spent more of his time in litigation and less making movies, he might have made a living for the rest of his life off all the movies that have ripped off this movie. Certainly Eastwood’s “Man with No Name” character owes a lot to Mifune’s contribution; not only in Leone’s films (the first of which borrows its entire plot from Kurosawa; a court settlement ensued which made sure Kurosawa made most of the profits from “Fistful of Dollars” in Asia his own) but also in Eastwood’s best film as a director — “High Plains Drifter”, which borrows scenes such as Eastwood’s rebuke of the villagers from “Yojimbo”.

The really funny thing about all this, and what not too many American critics or audiences have noted, is that “Yojimbo” is itself a western. All the ingredients for a western are here, and the film’s plot and style obviously owe a debt to Zinnemann’s “High Noon”. “Yojimbo” even borrows the device of time, setting up a confrontation at 3:00 a.m. as shouted by the town crier. I like “Yojimbo” better than “High Noon”, so I don’t want to go too far into this line of thought….

Review By: funkyfry
“You don’t mind if I kill all of you?” “What? Kill me if you can!” “It’ll hurt.”
Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo is a not too long, not too short action film that uses its action with just the right touches of voracity and excitement, and in the backdrop is also a sense of humor to the process. If I had to recommend a Kurosawa film to someone who’s never seen one before (and might be impatient to sit through the three and a half hour Seven Samurai, or might not get the non-linear structure of Rashomon), I’d put this one in their hands to try out.

Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune is terrific as Sanjuro Kuwabatake, a drifter of a samurai who stumbles upon a town with an assorted cast of characters, with a split between two gangs. One of the gangsters, Unosuke (Nakadai), is the only one in town; it seems, with a gun. At first Sanjuro plays each side, but when he gets beaten roughly by whom he was “protecting”, he realizes the fun’s over, and it’s time to fight back.

Much has been made about how Sergio Leone took Kurosawa’s story and characters (most in particular being a rogue from out of town) and made them into his breakthrough Fistful of Dollars- Kurosawa even sued Leone over the story rights. But to those who wonder whether Yojimbo is ‘better’ than Fistful or vice versa need to remember one of two things- Kurosawa took the story from Dashiell Hammett’s gangster novel Red Harvest, so neither filmmaker is making something really original; and that since each film is made in a different continent, and with the slightest different sensibilities about its characters. For one thing in Yojimbo guns are scarcer than in Fistful, and there’s a treatment Kurosawa has with his actors that sets it apart from the small town western scope of Leone’s weapons and actors. So each film (noticeably) carries its own kind of visual style while working in a similar plot structure. In other words, it’s kind of like comparing apples and oranges picked in the same farm (if that makes at all sense).

Overall, Yojimbo on its own is a lean, cool Japanese crime/action film, helmed by a master, and featuring a number of highlights to look forward to on multiple viewings. Some of those include: the scene inside Seibei’s brothel (with the women dancing and singing), Masaru Sato’s wonderful musical orchestrations, Mifune’s curiously low-key and rough performance (which did and didn’t serve as inspiration to Clint), and a climax that is up there with one of Kurosawa’s finest battles. A+

Review By: Quinoa1984

Other Information:

Original Title 用心棒
Release Date 1961-04-25
Release Year 1961

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima
Actors Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai
Country Japan
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Perspecta Stereo (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Toho Developing Co., Japan
Film Length 3,005 m (Sweden), 3,025 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Tohoscope (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm

Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Yojimbo 1961 123movies
Original title 用心棒
TMDb Rating 8.145 1,130 votes

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