Yojimbo’s premise, concerning fisticuffs between samurai and ruffians that distract the populace from the seizure of power by white-collar thugs, has only grown more pertinent to our present day.

| Jan 9, 2025

Yojimbo is intimate to the point of claustrophobia. Its wit is wry, its characters flawed and its world-view uncompromisingly cynical.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 14, 2020

A movie that is both a wow of a show and a masterpiece of misanthropy.

| Mar 4, 2013

A textbook example of the perfect crowd-pleaser.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 20, 2011

Action-packed, highly comic 1961 translation of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest.

| Feb 9, 2007

If the plot sounds familiar, it's probably because Leone stole it for A Fistful of Dollars.

| Feb 9, 2006

Even Eastwood's Man With No Name is inspired, perhaps, by the samurai in Yojimbo.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 20, 2006

Despite the sometime appearance of the whole thing as a forthright travesty, it does have stretches of excitement and cinematic power.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2003

It's timeless drama.

| Mar 10, 2003

Rousing, good story, told with vigor and visual excitement by Akira Kurosawa, and splendidly acted by Toshiro Mifune, this has ideal remake material for a Yank company.

| Feb 13, 2001