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YOJIMBO

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[YŌJINBŌ] [用心棒]
Tough guy Sanjūrō (Toshirô Mifune), an out-of-work, down-on-his-luck samurai, wanders into a lawless town beset by gang warfare and quickly finds his services much in demand by both factions. His response is to cynically play each side against the other — strange for a samurai but befitting filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s reputed source material, Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled pulp novel “Red Harvest.” With its unprecedented mix of cartoon violence and sardonic humor, the film has had an influence that is hard to overstate, from Sergio Leone’s remake A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and the entire spaghetti western genre of the 1960s to latter-day Tarantino-style postmodernist pastiches. DIR/SCR/PROD Akira Kurosawa; SCR/PROD Ryūzō Kikushima; PROD Tomoyuki Tanaka. Japan, 1961, b&w, 110 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Restored in 4K by Toho Co., Ltd.

Run Time: 110 Minutes

Opening Date: Friday, November 14, 2025

Genre: Action thriller

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YOJIMBO

Showtimes

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Friday, November 14, 2025

4:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 15, 2025

11:30 a.m.

Sunday, November 16, 2025

3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

2:10 p.m.

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

4:15 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
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