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YOJIMBO
(1961)
List of alternative names
- KNIGHT'S BODYGUARD
- BODYGUARD
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- Not available
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Japan
- Notes
- Sources disagree as to Hideo Oguni's co-screenplay credit.
Library Synopsis
Story of one-time samurai who takes on the job as bodyguard to a warring faction in a small village.
Top five credits
- Director
- KUROSAWA, Akira
- Production Company
- Kurosawa Productions
- Production Company
- Toho Co., Ltd.
- Producer
- TANAKA, Tomoyuki
- Producer
- KIKUSHIMA, Ryuzo
Top five cast
- Sanjuro Kuwabatake
- MIFUNE, Toshiro
- Gonji, the saké seller
- TONO, Eijirô
- Seibei, Tazaemon's henchman
- KAWAZU, Seizaburô
- Orin, Seibei's wife
- YAMADA, Isuzu
- Yoichiro, Seibei's son
- TACHIKAWA, Hiroshi