Yojimbo
Original title: Yôjinbô · Turkish title: Yojimbo
“Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once”
1961 · 1 h 50 min
Directed by 
Akira Kurosawa
Akira KurosawaCast
Toshiro Mifune 
Tatsuya Nakadai 
Eijiro Tono
Plot
A wandering masterless samurai plays two rival gangs against each other in a small town.
Sinekatalog’s take
A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other in a dusty town. Kurosawa's wry action comedy, with Toshiro Mifune swaggering, inspired A Fistful of Dollars and countless imitators.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 8.2 / 10 (145,092 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset; Rotten Tomatoes snapshot from October 2026. Scores change over time.
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