Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa’s most purely fun film, Yojimbo is the work of a master simply out to give his audience a good time. With a light and playful tone that gives way to an earned feeling of peril, Kurosawa’s seemingly frothy ronin tale ends up one of the most thoroughly entertaining films of his entire career. Anchored by a wonderful score by Masaru Sato and a pitch-perfect central performance by Kurosawa’s main star Toshiro Mifune, Yojimbo is a pure delight.

A masterless samurai who calls him...