Guest Special // Chris Todd // Yojimbo

Published: July 4, 2022, 6:46 p.m.

Wow! Episode 100! Thank you everybody for listening! We have all had an absolute blast making this podcast. We have Chris Todd on this episode to review 1961's Yojimbo. We talk about the influence the western genre and specifically, John Ford had on Kurosawa, the influence Kurosawa had on cinema as a whole from George Lucas and Star Wars to Steven Spielberg and Sergio Leone, what makes this movie so special, and lots of tangents along the way.

This movie was directed by Akira Kurosawa.

GD4AM: 91/100

IMDb: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 93/100

RT: 95%

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

This movie is currently streaming on HBOMAX.

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