A 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, in which a wandering ronin manipulates two rival gangs into destroying each other in a 19th-century town.
Production
Toho Studios released Yojimbo in April 1961. Akira Kurosawa directed Toshiro Mifune as a masterless samurai who calls himself Sanjuro. Kurosawa drew on hard-boiled American detective fiction, particularly the novels of Dashiell Hammett.
Plot
A ronin arrives in a town divided between two crime bosses, the sake merchant Tokuemon and the silk merchant Tazaemon, and offers his services to whichever side pays more, while quietly arranging for the factions to annihilate one another.
Influence
Sergio Leone adapted the story without credit as A Fistful of Dollars in 1964, launching the Spaghetti Western genre and Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name persona. Yojimbo also inspired Walter Hill’s 1996 film Last Man Standing.
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