Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and this week with special guest Chris Lavery, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.
This time, Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo.
A wandering masterless samurai arrives in a small town divided between two rival gangs. Cannily and skillfully manipulating these opposing forces, the samurai sets about ensuring that he might be the only winner in this bitter turf war.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 113th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 7th April 2018.
- Yojimbo at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Follow Chris on Twitter.
- Roger Ebert reviews Yojimbo for his “Great Movie” series, April 2005.
- Dan Schneider on Yojimbo as “Kurosawa lite”, October 2013.
- The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Richie at Amazon.com.
- Andrew Robinson discusses Donald Richie’s The Films of Akira Kurosawa at The Times Higher Education, June 1996.
- Joaquín da Silva discusses the historical and cultural context of Yojimbo, January 2004.
- Alexander Sesonske for Criterion on how Yojimbo fuses East and West, March 2010.
- Alejandro Villarreal’s shot-for-shot comparison of Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars, February 2016.
- Alex Cox at The Guardian on the appeal and legacy of Kurosawa’s samurai films, December 2001.
- Obituary for cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa in The Guardian, August 1999.
- Obituary for composer Masura Satu in The Guardian, January 2000.
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Filed under: The 250 | Tagged: akira kurosawa, chris lavery, classic, samurai, samurai film, the bodyguard, the man with no name, toshiro mifune, western, yojimbo |
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