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Yojimbo

用心棒

“Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once”

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A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Release date: 25 April 1961

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