Movie #111: Yojimbo

Movie #: 111
Movie Title: Yojimbo
Year Released: 1961

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Notable Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada

Short Description: A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: N/A
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: #95
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: #24



Date Watched: 5/31/2016

Grade: 1.5 out of 5 (Marginal)

Rationale: The movie A Fistfull of Dollars told a very similar story in a far more exciting and entertaining way. While I shouldn’t be comparing the two because this is a recap of how I felt about just Yojimbo, I can’t help it because the movies are so similar in basic themes, badass “lone wolf” main characters, and general timeframe of when they were made (1961 vs 1964).