Yojimbo May 19, 2011

Thursday, May 19 – 7:00 PM

Singafest Asian Film Nights Premiere: 35 mm. print of Akira Kurosawa’s Samurai Masterpiece!
YOJIMBO, 1961, Janus Films, 110 min.
What better way to kick off Singafest Asian Film Nights than with one of Japanese cinema’s greatest classics: Toshiro Mifune stars as an out-of-work swordsman who wanders into a town torn apart by a bitter feud between two rival clans – and sees a chance to dispense a little justice, and make a little money, by selling his services to the highest bidder. Remade several times – most notably by Sergio Leone as A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS with Clint Eastwood in the wandering assassin role – the original YOJIMBO remains a high point of the collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune, and one of the greatest samurai films ever. Look for the great Tatsuya Nakadai (SWORD OF DOOM) as Mifune’s psychotic nemesis, Unosuke.