Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Manthast Absolutely amazing

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

adonis98-743-186503 A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Yojimbo is one of the many overrated titles that you're going to find on this list with the Top 250 since i found it pretty much terrible on all occassions from the acting stand point, to script, dialogue and most of all pacing which was terrible. Some people will definitely enjoy it and have fun but for casual viewers like me this is an easy pass and nothing that other better movies that were released way later didn't touch upon better. (0/10)

hrkepler Very few men are cooler than Clint Eastwood, Toshiro Mifune is one of them. And very few directors can build up scene like Akira Kurosawa, Sergio Leone is not one of them (pretty close though). 'Yojimbo' is a film that is imitated (or remade) many times, but never as cleverly. It is not simple samurai action piece, but it actually explores much philosophical themes. Toshiro Mifune is a samurai who travels around the country until he reaches into town that is ruled by two rival families. The samurai sees the situation as an easy way to make some money, as he pours more fuel into the fire with doing small deeds to both families. Although we learn that the samurai is not only greedy swordsman, but his real motivations can be interpreted many ways by the end of the film. 'Yojimbo' might not be Kurosawa's best (I guess it can be debated) or deepest, but it's definitely his most entertaining ones.

DonAlberto Yojimbo is one of those weird films you don't know what genre you should put them in. It's a drama, I suppose, but I feel tempted to define it as as dark comedy crammed with dark humour. I know it might be a bit out of the ordinary to open a review by expressing one's doubts but after watching the film, and even as I was watching it, I struggled to identify the genre the movie belonged to.That, as important as it may seem to me, it's not and obstacle to keep me from enjoying the film. It tells the simple story of a ronin, a kind of drifting samurai that wanders from town to town in medieval Japan, often selling his sword to the highest bid. To start off, the fact that the action revolves around such popular a character in Japanise culture is both risky and appealing. The former because it implies the films will have to deal with a warrior whose portrait is so embedded in Jajapanese culture that even the the slightest attempt to derail that image that cultures project onto society, one that unconsciously we individually tempt to assume. The latter, because by making a film that shatters the samurai's path to wisdom, by the time you have watched it you'll have learnt one thing or two non only about warriors but about human condition.And the film works very well as a research project on the human condition. Violence, terror, loneliness are sharp and precisely dealt with in this Kurosawa's film. Not only that, Yojimbo juggles all these ingredients masterfully and quite often you fin yourself not knowing if you should laugh, cry or both at the same time. What the story is about isn't quite important, really. Let's just say that this cunning samurai tricks two rival gangs into fighting each other. In short, a must have for every cinema fan out there.

Takethispunch In 1860, during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate,a rōnin (masterless samurai) wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside. While stopping at a farmhouse, he overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son has given up farm labouring in order to run off and join the rogues who have descended on a nearby town that has become divided by a gang war. The stranger heads to the town where he meets the owner of a small Izakaya who advises him to leave. He tells the rōnin that the two warring clans are led by Ushitora and Seibei. The silk merchant and mayor back Seibei while the sake brewer is allied with Ushitora. But after sizing up the situation, the stranger says he intends to stay as the town would be better off with both sides dead.