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Yojimbo
VHS £15.99
Film Description Aka The Bodyguard. The story of a lone Samurai who appears one day in a feuding gamblers' town as a mercenary for sale, widely considered to be one of the best action/adventure movies ever made. Later remade by Leone as A Fistful of Dollars.
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DVD Extras Full-length commentary by Philip Kemp plus on-screen biographies of Kurosawa and Mifune.
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Review by toby on 9th July 2003 One of my favourite movies. Not sure why it has this status.
Review by Max Schrek on 5th August 2003 I\'d like to thank your previous reviewer for providing a spirited and youthful take on Akira Kurosawa\'s Yojimbo, althought they did miss all the main points. Although later remade as a \'A fist full of dollars\' by Serigo Leone in 1964 and again as \'Last man Standing\' with Bruce Willis in 1996 this remains one of Kurosawa\'s minor works. Set in a period of change in Japanese society which has left many lordless samurai seeking service where they can. Our anti-hero enters a no-horse town split by two rival factions of thugs and plays each side against the other - ostensibly for gain but in reality as an attempt to remove the cancer thatis destroying the town and also to
Article - "Akira Kurosawa - Ikiru, Sanjuro & Red Beard"
by Brett Evans
Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film, Ikiru, about a petty official whose imminent death forces him to search for a meaning to his existence, was the Emperor's most existential work to date. Kurosawa regular Takeshi Shimura gives a career best performance as Kanji Wata... View article in full
Article - "Akira Kurosawa"
by Peter Wild
Akira Kurosawa is generally regarded to be one of the greatest directors to have ever worked in the medium. Lauded later in life by Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola (who said that, “of all film directors, Kurosawa is the only one whose films y... View article in full
Article - "Akira Kurosawa - A Restrained Affirmation"
by Peter Wild
I have Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro to thank for my infatuation with Akira Kurosawa (or Kurosawa Akira as he is referred to in Japan). I interviewed Kazuo about ten years ago and he said that there was a film by Kurosawa that ranked as one of the grea... View article in full
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