Kurosawa’s visually astounding and darkly-comedic Yojimbo – featuring the unsurpassed Toshiro Mifune – was extremely influential and changed Westerns forever. A cunning samurai-mercenary rids a terrorised village of corruption.
Yojimbo is part of our Summer program featuring 5 classics by Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Ran and High and Low will all screen this Summer. Check all dates here.
Wandering samurai Sanjuro Om arrives in a 19th-cemtury village where he employs all his resourcefulness and martial arts to make two local crime bosses feud, turning the war between the evil clans to his advantage. In Yojimbo almost everyone has dubious motives: you have to fight fire with fire.