In a Japanese samurai comes to town. The samurai looks completely off-the samurai: bad haircut, not combed. And in the city of two organized criminal groups established parochial oligarchs of the persons under investigation and in search, terrorizing the inhabitants of the town, suffering violently from gangster mayhem... Showing remarkable operative ingenuity and masterful operative working with the sword, alternately engaging a bodyguard to one or the other gang, the samurai skillfully reduces the stock of freaks, simultaneously solving their own problems.
Yôjinbô
| Year | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Country | Japan |
| Tagline | Better if all these men were dead. Think about it! |
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Cinematography | Kazuo Miyagawa |
| Scriptwriters | Akira KurosawaRyuzo Kikushima |
| Produced | Akira KurosawaRyuzo KikushimaTomoyuki Tanaka |
| Music | Masaru Satô |
| Art Direction | Yoshirô Muraki |
| Editing | Akira Kurosawa |
| Genres | ActionThrillerDrama |
| Release Date | April 25, 1961 |
| Runtime | 110 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
Spaghetti Western by Sergio Leone "a fistful of dollars" (1964) follows the story of "Bodyguard". Besides the plot, Leone borrowed from Kurosawa's many methods of shooting. The result of a lawsuit for copyright infringement, the creators of the remake had to pay Kurosawa 100 thousand dollars and 15% in fees from the rental of the film, and also to give the rights to hire in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
The movie "lone Hero", with Bruce Willis in the title role, follows the plot of "the Bodyguard", but adapted to the gangster Thriller of the times "dry law".
The names of the main character means: Kuwabatake "the Mulberry garden [cotton fields]", Sanjuro "thirty years". Common incorrect decoding of the name "Kuwabatake" as the "cotton field" comes from the fact that in the movie the main character is asked to introduce myself calls himself "Kuwabatake", but looking at this on an empty cotton field. Mulberry trees in the barn. However, they are implied, as cotton fields traditionally obseived around the perimeter of the mulberry tree, whose leaves serve as food for silkworms.
The plot of the film is an adaptation of two detective novels Desila Hammett: "the Glass key" (1931
