“Yojimbo,” memorably shot by the great cinematographer ... most important of all, Tatsuya Nakadai, who portrays Mifune’s chief antagonist in both pictures with radical differentiation.

As a retrospective within a retrospective, Film Forum’s ongoing tribute to the great Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai features five films directed ... to Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life” (1998). “Yojimbo,” a ...

Yojimbo starts with the masterless samurai ... like a corrupt government official and Unosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai), who has the one thing he doesn’t: a gun. But in the end, Sanjuro is simply ...

Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan’s greatest actors who worked with several of the country’s most notable filmmakers, is set to receive the lifetime achievement award at the Tokyo International ...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master (Toshirô Mifune), enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the ...

Director Akira Kurosawa's "Oriental Western" about a soldier who finds himself no longer needed in a 19th-century world of change. Toshiro Mifune. Gonji: Eijiro Tono. Seibei: Seizaburo Kawazu.

Made just one year later, Sanjuro matches Yojimbo’s storytelling dexterity yet adds layers of world-weary pragmatism that brings the two films to a thrilling and unforgettable conclusion.