Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa

Keywords: Crime, Japan

A samurai with no master manipulates two feuding factions of a town into destroying each other. Kurosawa's masterpiece; one of the most influential films ever produced. It inspired the Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars (1964), though Yojimbo itself isn't wholly original; it used as a rough framework Dashiell Hammett's gangster novel Red Harvest as well as The Glass Key (1942), which Kurosawa admits. Received an Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Toshirô Mifune	Actor	1-Apr-1920	24-Dec-1997	Yojimbo
Tatsuya Nakadai	Actor	13-Dec-1932		The Sword of Doom
Takashi Shimura	Actor	12-Mar-1905	11-Feb-1982	The Seven Samurai
Isuzu Yamada	Actor	5-Feb-1917	9-Jul-2012	Yojimbo

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