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Speaker(s): C¨¦cile Tresfels

Kurosawa¡¯s classic Yojimbo follows the story of a ronin (a samurai with no master, played by Toshiro Mifune) who wanders into a Japanese town in 1860 that is ravaged by an ongoing war between two gangs. He plays the gangs against one another for the good of the town, and becomes the town¡¯s de facto protector. Set in 1860, Yojimbo is regarded as one of the best films of all time, with a central performance by an anonymous protagonist (¡®the man with no name¡¯), and was reworked three years later by Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood in A Fistful for Dollars. It is classic Western, relocated to Japan.