Yojimbo [videorecording (Blu-ray)] = Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo / the Criterion Collection ; Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; a Toho-Kurosawa Production ; produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Ryuzo Kikushima ; screenplay by Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Format:
[videorecording (Blu-ray)] =
Edition:
Blu-ray ed.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.)
Title from container. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Kato. Credits from English subtitles and book which accompanies set. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1961. Special features: audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince; 1 45-min. documentary on the making of Yojimbo, created as part of the Toho masterworks series "Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create," featuring Kurosawa, actor Tatsuya Nakadai, production designer Yoshiro Muraki, and longtime Kurosawa collaborator Teruyo Nogami; theatrical teaser and trailer; stills gallery of behing-the scenes photos; and a booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and comments from Kurosawa and his cast and crew.
Summary:
To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage.
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