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.
Released: 1961
Casts:
Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Seizaburô Kawazu, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Eijirō Tōno, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe, Susumu Fujita, Kyû Sazanka, Yōsuke Natsuki, Kô Nishimura, Takeshi Katô, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Akira Tani, Namigoro Rashomon, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Gen Shimizu, Yutaka Sada, Shin Ôtomo, Shôichi Hirose, Hideyo Amamoto, Shôji Ôki, Fuminori Ôhashi, Hiroshi Yoseyama, Senkichi Ômura, Noriko Honma, Ryusuke Nishio, Naoya Kusakawa, Nadao Kirino, Jun Ôtomo, Shinpei Takagi, Akio Kusama, Yasuzô Ogawa, Hiroshi Takagi, Jun'ichirô Mukai, Fumiyoshi Kamagaya, Ichirô Chiba, Haruya Sakamoto, Rinsaku Ogata, Fumio Kogushi, Yoko Terui, Hiromi Mineoka, Michiko Kawa, Jerry Fujio