Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa

Keywords: Crime, Japan

A samurai with no master manipulates two feuding factions of a town into destroying each other. Kurosawa's masterpiece; one of the most influential films ever produced. It inspired the Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars (1964), though Yojimbo itself isn't wholly original; it used as a rough framework Dashiell Hammett's gangster novel Red Harvest as well as The Glass Key (1942), which Kurosawa admits. Received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Toshirô Mifune	Actor	1-Apr-1920	24-Dec-1997	Yojimbo
Tatsuya Nakadai	Actor	13-Dec-1932		The Sword of Doom
Takashi Shimura	Actor	12-Mar-1905	11-Feb-1982	The Seven Samurai
Isuzu Yamada	Actor	5-Feb-1917	9-Jul-2012	Yojimbo

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