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mvie mu-1024289: Kurosawa's Yojimbo/A Fistful of Ryo w/ Rice & Sake

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:26:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author thevoid99 - While Akira Kurosawa is famously known for putting the ideas of American westerns into his films, notably his samurai movies. One of his biggest influences from that genre was John Ford who also praised the Japanese director. When the 1960s approached,...

mvie mu-1024289: Last Man Standing With a Fistful of Dollars - Yojimbo

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:40:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author George_Chabot - Yojimbo (1961) OK, OK, I know what you're thinking - what could this guy possibly write that would add anything meaningful to the reams of information already published about this Akira Kurosawa flick? If you're asking yourself who or what is...

mvie mu-1024289: YOJIMBO : The original, the remakes and bonus essay (T & A write-off entry)

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:31:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ChrisJarmick - There is not a Best or Worst Remake section at Epinions, and while this review may be technically long enough to be considered a review of .Yojimbo., it is here with other films to be part of the Pearannoyed Then and Again write-off (T & A). So...

mvie mu-1024289: A Fistful of Ryo

Sat, 1 May 2004 19:03:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author metalluk - Akiri Kurosawa’s 1962 film Yojimbo ("The Bodyguard") comes with impressive credentials. On the Internet Database poll of most popular films, it ranks 112th, which makes it 14th among non-English language films. It is typically listed among...

mvie mu-1024289: The Samurai Papers Part I: Yojimbo

Fri, 23 May 2003 13:10:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author nathantyree - First, a note on my intent: I plan to develop a series of reviews dealing with Samurai related movies and books. Most of them will be on topics that are definitely within the samurai genre. Others will have a more tenuous connection.

Most of...

mvie mu-1024289: Playing Both Sides Against The Mifune: Kurosawa's Yojimbo

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:07:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfunk75 - The opening credit sequence of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo (The Bodyguard)" features a scruffy ronin, his back to the camera, scratching at his scalp and under his tattered robe. The year is 1860, and Japan's Tokugawa Dynasty has ended, sending a squadron...

mvie mu-1024289: An eye for an eye makes the whole world dead (anti-war Write-Off)

Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:33:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author st_patrick - The title of my review of course misquotes Gandhi. However, it accurately sums up the plot of Akira Kurosawa's classic film much better than Gandhi's famous quote. Here we've got a case of a town embroiled in a conflict that leads to "an eye for an eye...

mvie mu-1024289: Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo

Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:28:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author DavidMac - Akira Kurosawa is well known as being one of the great directors in history, but he’s also known simply as a director of samurai dramas. The Seven Samurai is certainly his most famous film, and Yojimbo is pretty close in stature as well. However, it...

mvie mu-1024289: TATEYAKU MIFUNE-Kurosawa's Classic-The Bodyguard

Thu, 2 Aug 2001 02:54:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author artbyjude - This is the story that inspired the first spaghetti Western, FISTFULL OF DOLLARS, and more recently, LAST MAN STANDING, with Bruce Willis. The story holds no surprises for me, having watched Leone's version too many times in a house where only Westerns...

mvie mu-1024289: Yojimbo : Yo, Jimbo! -- A amazing classic from Akira Kurasawa and Toshiro Mifune

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:29:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author skyth - A wonderful example of how a foreign director can take an American genre and make it better, Yojimbo is one of the best western movies ever made. Ok, its not really a western movie, or is it? Yojimbo is a black and white movie about a samurai who...

mvie mu-1024289: A Fistful of Ryo

Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:53:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author WritingLife - It was the Daniel Pinkwater novel, Alan Mendelsohn, Boy From Mars, that first drew us, indirectly, to this excellent Kurosawa film. Leonard Neeble and Alan Mendelsohn, the protagonists of Pinkwater’s book, receive Yojimbo’s Japanese-English...

mvie mu-1024289: Yojimbo (1961)

Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:48:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BrianKoller - Legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa frequently borrowed western themes for his movies, which in turn became the basis for western adaptations. A good example of this mutually beneficial cultural exchange is Yojimbo. The setting and story...

mvie mu-1024289: One of the finest films ever made, period ...

Sun, 2 Jan 2000 18:24:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Oedipa_Maas - While Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key were filmed twice under those titles, both in classic and less-than-classic versions (and The Maltese Falcon was even more loosely adapted as the Bette Davis vehicle, Satan Met a Lady), while...