![]() ![]() His plan is foiled due to the unexpected arrival of a bugyō (a government official), which gives both Seibei and Ushitora the opportunity to make a bloodless retreat and cease their war. Sanjuro leads the attack on the other faction, but then "resigns" over Seibei's treachery, expecting both sides to massacre each other. However, Sanjuro eavesdrops on Seibei's wife, who orders Yoichiro to prove himself by killing the ronin after the upcoming raid, saving them from having to pay him. Seibei decides that with the ronin's swordsmanship, the time is right to deal with Ushitora. When asked his name, he sees a mulberry field and states his name is Kuwabatake Sanjuro ( 桑畑三十郎), where 桑畑 Kuwabatake = "mulberry field" and where 三十郎 Sanjuro ("thirty-years-old"). He first convinces the weaker Seibei to hire his services by effortlessly killing three of Ushitora's men. After sizing up the situation and recognizing that no one in town cares about ending the violence, the stranger says he intends to stay, as the town would be better off with both sides dead. The town's mayor, a silk merchant named Tazaemon, had long been in Seibei's pocket, so Ushitora aligned himself with the local sake brewer, Tokuemon, proclaiming him the new mayor. He tells the rōnin that the two warring bosses, Ushitora and Seibei, are fighting over the lucrative gambling trade run by Seibei Ushitora had been Seibei's right-hand man, but rebelled when Seibei decided that his successor would be his son Yoichiro, a useless youth. The stranger heads to the town where he meets Gonji, the owner of a small izakaya who advises him to leave. ![]() While stopping at a farmhouse for water, he overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son, not wanting to waste his life as a farmer, has run off to join the "gamblers" who have descended on a nearby town overrun with criminals and divided between two rival bosses. In 1860, during the final years of the Edo period, a rōnin wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside. It was unofficially remade by Sergio Leone as the Spaghetti Western film A Fistful of Dollars (1964), leading to a lawsuit by Toho. The film grossed an estimated $2.5 million worldwide with a budget of ¥90.87 million. Yojimbo received highly positive reviews, and, over the years, became widely regarded as one of the best films by Kurosawa and one of the greatest films ever made. The film was released and produced by Toho on April 25, 1961. In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family mon. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.īased on the success of Yojimbo, Kurosawa's next film, Sanjuro (1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. ' Bodyguard ') is a 1961 Japanese samurai film co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. I also took some care to make sure the kanji had accurate translations and had fun drawing my drawing my own versions of the characters.Yojimbo ( 用心棒, Yōjinbō, lit. The biggest challenge was finding a photo of a rabbit that was sufficiently angry. Is it stop-motion animated? Is it actors in animal costumes? I don't know, but it's fun to imagine. Kurosawa directed his last film in 1993 and Mifune continued acting until 1995, so it's within the real of possibility that this film could have existed. Sakai was partially inspired by the films of Akira Kurosawa and took the name from Kurosawa's film, "Yojimbo." Toshiro Mifune played the title character in that film. He has often crossed over with TMNT in comics and cartoons. ![]() Miyamoto Usagi, aka Usagi Yojimbo (Rabbit Bodyguard) was an indie comic book created by Stan Sakai in 1984, coincidentally the same year that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles debuted in their own comic. This one may take some explaining, because this isn't a well known character. I created a poster for a movie that doesn't exist, but I wish it had. ![]()
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