Los Angeles|Local Event
Yojimbo (Yojinbo) in 35mm w/ Special Guest Rika Hiro, PhD, associate curator of Japanese art, LACMA
Event Details
In person: Rika Hiro, PhD, associate curator of Japanese art, LACMA
A mysterious ronin going by the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune), wanders into a small town plagued by criminals. With tensions brewing between two rival yakuza, Sanjuro decides to clean up the village and wipe out the racketeers by sowing dissension among them. This samurai tale of an enigmatic drifter defending a terror-stricken town, itself a loose adaptation of pulp novelist Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest (1929), inspired a mass of films following its release, most notably the spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars (1964). The film earned an Academy Award nomination for Yoshiro Muraki’s costume design.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1961 | 110 min. | Japan | Black-and-White | Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
WRITTEN BY: Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima
WITH: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa