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Have You Ever Seen · September 28 · 35 min

Yojimbo

It's fitting that with Scary Movie Month right around the spooky corner, here's a Japanese classic that's all about death. Yojimbo is the first Akira Kurosawa film on Have You Ever Seen in quite a few years. And just like in Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne Of Blood and so many of his others, it's been very influential on other filmmakers. Longtime AK collaborator, Toshiro Mifune, plays a selfish ronin who works 2 sides of a gang war against each other. The antihero is, as he always was, very Kabuki, but also very commanding. He's the star of a bloody and violent B&W classic as people die while Sanjuro rides the fence (and also kills plenty of the townsfolk). So grab a fistful of this 762nd episode as I relate some thoughts about Yojimbo. Be a subscriber! Rate the show, review it too. Find me on Letterboxd (RyanHYES). Email me (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). On Twitter I'm "@moviefiend51" and Bluesky "ryan-ellis."

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It's fitting that with Scary Movie Month right around the spooky corner, here's a Japanese classic that's all about death. Yojimbo is the first Akira Kurosawa film on Have You Ever Seen in quite a few years. And just like in Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne Of Blood and so many of his others, it's been very influential on other filmmakers. Longtime AK collaborator, Toshiro Mifune, plays a selfish ronin who works 2 sides of a gang war against each other. The antihero is, as he always was, very Kabuki, but also very commanding. He's the star of a bloody and violent B&W classic as people die while Sanjuro rides the fence (and also kills plenty of the townsfolk). So grab a fistful of this 762nd episode as I relate some thoughts about Yojimbo.

Be a subscriber! Rate the show, review it too. Find me on Letterboxd (RyanHYES). Email me (haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com). On Twitter I'm "@moviefiend51" and Bluesky "ryan-ellis."

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