“Yojimbo” is the story of the samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake, who finds himself in a village which, for years, has been at the mercy of two rival gangs led by Seibei and Ushitora, old partners ...

In Yojimbo, the ronin eventually known as Kuwabatake Sanjuro finds a splintered Yakuza gang, while Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name encounters two families of smugglers.

Kuwabatake Sanjuro, the ronin samurai in the film "Yojimbo" whose pseudonym the Assassination... [+] Market's founder has adopted. Other than that, "I can but appeal personally," Sanjuro writes.

But the main attraction here is the yojimbo (bodyguard), a man who goes by Kuwabatake Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune). That’s not his real name — it roughly translates to Mulberry Thirty-Year Old ...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master (Toshirô Mifune), enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the ...

A classic by Akira Kurosawa, Yojimbo is on showcase at the Mocha film club today.Sanjuro is a wandering samurai in 19th century Japan. He arrives at a town plagued by opposing criminal gangs.

Director Akira Kurosawa and star Toshiro Mifune did some of their finest work together with this pair of films from the early 1960s, and the Criterion Collection has now released them in sparkling ...

Just released today, the new Criterion versions of Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sanjuro. To give you an idea of the improvement, here are some comparisons between the old and the new Criterion releases ...

In the sequel, "Sanjuro," the samurai helps nine bumbling young warriors expose their... Watch It: 'Yojimbo' and 'Sanjuro' Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...