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Yojimbo
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #66
- IMDb #161
- Rotten Tomatoes #51
- Metacritic #84
- Letterboxd #129
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #342
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #50
- Metacritic Critics #113
- Metacritic Audience #203
- Criticker #35
- Douban #68
- Kinopoisk #332
- AlloCiné #505
- Trakt #366
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 77, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 96.
See the most agreed on films →A masterless samurai, a ronin, arrives in a desolate town torn apart by a violent feud between two rival merchants. Seeing an opportunity for profit and moral cleansing, he cleverly plays both criminal factions against each other. He offers his services as a bodyguard to both sides, systematically manipulating the conflict to escalate the violence and destroy the corrupt gangs from within.
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima
- Based on
- Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
- Studio
- TOHO
- Released
- 25 April 1961
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- NR
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →0 wins from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| 34th Academy Awards 1962 | Best Costume Design, Black-and-White | Yoshirō Muraki | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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