Director Akira Kurosawa and star Toshiro Mifune did some of their finest work together with this pair of films from the early ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon (Kamatari Fujiwara) and sake merchant Tokuemon (Takashi Shimura) to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then ...

His exasperated reactions at the constant naive idiocies of the idealistic samurais are priceless. All-in-all, Korasawa manages to create a perfect one-two punch in Yojimbo and Sanjuro.

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 ...

“Yojimbo,” “Sanjuro” Two of Akira Kurosawa’s samurai classics receive DVD updates that offer new high-definition digital transfers of the early 1960s films.

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 ...