PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
TOHO
Yojimbo
Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once
Genre:
Drama, Thriller
Runtime:
110
Released:
1961
Rating:
8.1
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
Akira Kurosawa, Ryūzō Kikushima
FILM OVERVIEW
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
DIRECTOR
Akira Kurosawa
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
Akira Kurosawa (Director)
Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay)
Ryūzō Kikushima (Screenplay)
Ryūzō Kikushima (Executive Producer)
Akira Kurosawa (Producer)
Tomoyuki Tanaka (Executive Producer)
Masaru Satō (Original Music Composer)
Kazuo Miyagawa (Director of Photography)
Akira Kurosawa (Editor)
Yoshirō Muraki (Production Design)
CAST MEMBERS
Toshirō Mifune
Tatsuya Nakadai
Yōko Tsukasa
Isuzu Yamada
Daisuke Katō
Seizaburō Kawazu
Takashi Shimura
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Yōsuke Natsuki
Eijirō Tōno
MORE PRODUCTION
Yoshirō Muraki (Costume Design), Reiko Kaneko (Editorial Production Assistant), Teruyo Nogami (Script Supervisor), Hiroshi Nezu (Production Supervisor), Masanobu Deme (Assistant Director), Shirō Moritani (Assistant Director), Yoshifumi Honda (Assistant Art Director), Chôshichirô Mikami (Sound Recordist), Ichirô Minawa (Sound Effects Editor), Masanobu Miyazaki (Sound Mixer), Hisashi Shimonaga (Sound Recordist), Chōshirō Ishii (Lighting Technician), Takao Saitō (First Assistant Camera), Ryū Kuze (Choreographer), Yoshiko Matsumoto (Hairstylist), Junjirō Yamada (Hairstylist), Daisaku Kimura (Focus Puller), Kôichi Hamamura (Property Master)
MORE CAST
Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Susumu Fujita, Kyū Sazanka, Kō Nishimura, Takeshi Katō, Ichirō Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Akira Tani, Namigoro Rashomon, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Gen Shimizu, Jerry Fujio, Yutaka Sada, Shin Ōtomo, Shōichi Hirose, Hideyo Amamoto, Shōji Ōki, Fuminori Ōhashi, Hiroshi Kiyama, Senkichi Ōmura, Noriko Honma, Ryusuke Nishio, Naoya Kusakawa, Nadao Kirino, Mitsuo Tsuda, Shinpei Takagi, Jun Ōtomo, Akio Kusama, Yasuzō Ogawa, Hiroshi Takagi, Jun’ichirō Mukai, Takuzō Kumagai, Ichirō Chiba, Haruya Sakamoto, Rinsaku Ogata, Takeo Ogushi, Yoko Terui, Hiromi Mineoka, Michiko Kawa
