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Yojimbo

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76 feature instances
60 referencing feature instances

Yojimbo	type	TVTItem
Yojimbo	label	Yojimbo
Yojimbo	page	Yojimbo
Yojimbo	comment	Yojimbo (ç”¨å¿ƒæ£’ - YÅ�jinbÅ�, meaning "bodyguard") is a 1961 Japanese Jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is loosely based on the American novel Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.It stars Toshiro Mifune as a wandering rÅ�nin who arrives in a town beset by criminals and decides to clean the place up (apparently for fun and profit). His method is simple, yet clever: he reduces the number of gangsters in the town by getting the two rival factions to go to war, then mops up the remainder. When asked about his name, he looks at a mulberry field and answers "Kuwabatake SanjÅ«rÅ�".note Which translates to "30-year-old mulberry field", so his real name remains a mystery.An enormously influential film, it has had at least three direct remakes — Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (as a Western), Walter Hill's Last Man Standing (as a mob movie) and Albert Pyun's Omega Doom (as a sci-fi movie) — as well as whole-plot references and homages in numerous other films and television shows, including being the inspiration for John Belushi's Samurai character on Saturday Night Live.A year later, it got a sequel titled Sanjuro, which is a bit more light-hearted. In 1970, Toshiro Mifune would reprise the character for two more installments: the crossover movie Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo and another standalone story Machibuse. Both movies are prequels as the former explains how Sanjuro became a ronin the first place while the latter has Sanjuro equipped with a daishÅ� sword pairing, weapons that he loses in Yojimbo.Not to be confused with Usagi Yojimbo which draws some influence from this movie.
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Yojimbo	processingComment	Dropped link to DollarsTrilogy: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Yojimbo / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Yojimbo / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Sometimes. During the fights, you won't see any wounds (except for one instance of SanjÅ«rÅ� cutting off a guy's arm) and the swords often seem to slash nothing but air. There are a couple of times when this is averted, though: once when a thug gets cut up in an alleyway and blood spurts from his body almost immediately, and again when Unosuke has been slashed to bits and is very visibly bleeding out.
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Yojimbo / int_15a5b6e3	type	A Fistful of Rehashes
Yojimbo / int_15a5b6e3	comment	A Fistful of Rehashes: The one that's thought to have started the rehashing chain of A Fistful of Dollars is itself an adaptation of The Glass Key, though its plot more closely follows Red Harvest.
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Yojimbo / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Yojimbo / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: The status quo at the beginning of the movie. SanjÅ«rÅ�'s actions just turn it up to eleven.
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Yojimbo / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Yojimbo / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Hachi and Kuma, two former thugs of Ushitora's whom SanjÅ«rÅ� holds hostage.
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Yojimbo / int_1eda7a32	type	I Own This Town
Yojimbo / int_1eda7a32	comment	I Own This Town: The town has two parties that are out to run it.
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Yojimbo / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Yojimbo / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The coffin-maker sizes Sanjuro up and builds one for him prematurely; it's this coffin that saves his life by allowing Gonji and said coffin-maker to smuggle him to safety after escaping from Ushitora's goons.
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Yojimbo / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Yojimbo / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Sanjuro is severely beaten by the villains when he releases the family.
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Yojimbo / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Yojimbo / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: Tokuemon, the Sake Brewer.
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Yojimbo / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Yojimbo / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: At the beginning, SanjÅ«rÅ� wanders in whatever direction a casually thrown branch suggests.
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Yojimbo / int_2ad2a2c8	type	Diagonal Cut
Yojimbo / int_2ad2a2c8	comment	Diagonal Cut: One of the last things SanjÅ«rÅ� does: cut the ropes binding Gonji with a single stroke, before turning around to go Walk the Earth some more.
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Yojimbo / int_2b1d7c0a	type	The Drifter
Yojimbo / int_2b1d7c0a	comment	Like his American successors, Sanjuro is a wandering warrior, but the historical context behind his drifter status is very different. As noted by the Opening Scroll, Sanjuro became a drifter after his superiors, the shoguns, lost power in 1860, an early sign that the samurai class, along with the rÅ�nin class, was becoming increasingly obsolete in Japan. In contrast, Sanjuro's cowboy counterparts in America are pioneers exploring the wild American territory in the west.
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Yojimbo / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Yojimbo / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: What started the mob war in the first place. Seibei wanted to make his son the next leader of the sole gang in town, and his right hand man Ushitora objected and decided to take over, taking half of Seibei's men with him.
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Yojimbo / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Yojimbo / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Sanjuro kills all of Nui's jailers while making it look like fifteen men did it. Unfortunately, he gets caught in the end anyway.
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Yojimbo / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Yojimbo / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism:
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Yojimbo / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Yojimbo / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: Played with. While SanjÅ«rÅ� manages to heal quickly and apparently without lasting consequences after being beaten pretty badly, it takes him at least a week if not more to fully recover rather than being fine in a few days.
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Yojimbo / int_3346f944	type	Not Worth Killing
Yojimbo / int_3346f944	comment	Not Worth Killing: The only survivor of Sanjuro's Curb-Stomp Battle at the end among the villains is the boy who left his parents to be employed as a mook in town. Upon seeing Sanjuro slaughter everyone in lightning fast single strokes, he stops attacking and pathetically screams for his mother, which prompts Sanjuro to spare his life and order him to go back to his mother and "live a long life eating gruel".
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Yojimbo / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Yojimbo / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: The theatrical trailer shows Sanjuro and Unosuke facing off one-to-one in a deserted street, while in the actual film, Unosuke has more than half a dozen men behind him in that scene.
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Yojimbo / int_33ebf487	type	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
Yojimbo / int_33ebf487	comment	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: SanjÅ«rÅ� gets the upper hand over Unosuke by hitting Unosuke's gun arm with a knife.
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Yojimbo / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Yojimbo / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Inokichi is somewhere between being the big Dumb Muscle, and appearing endearing and harmless.
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Yojimbo / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Yojimbo / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The climax. SanjÅ«rÅ� takes out nine people (Ushitora, Unosuke, Inokichi, and their Mooks minus one whom SanjÅ«rÅ� spares) in seconds without receiving a scratch.
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Yojimbo / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Yojimbo / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The town is free of the gangs, but thanks to how badly the war had escalated before the end, there isn't much left of the town, with the restaurateur and the cooper, and the Dirty Cop Hansuke being the only depicted adult males still alive and sane. As for Sanjuro, he may have conned some gold out of the gangs before wiping them out, but at the end of the day, he's still just a wandering rÅ�nin with little to his name and nothing but the clothes on his back and the sword at his waist.
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Yojimbo / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Yojimbo / int_4160410d	comment	Sanjuro's rescue of Nui has an added layer of sadness considering that Nui may have reminded Sanjuro of his past love interests, especially Okuni who was also a Damsel in Distress.
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Yojimbo / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Yojimbo / int_4781adbb	comment	SanjÅ«rÅ� manages to save a family that's been caught between the quarrels of the two gangs, which makes him less overtly antiheroic. In order to act a little more rugged, SanjÅ«rÅ� threatens them with death if they don't get the hell out of there fast enough. He does so with good reason: if they're caught, they'll likely be killed. He also drags his beaten body out for a final showdown with the Ushitora gang rather than let them kill Gonji.
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Yojimbo / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
Yojimbo / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: One of the gangsters at the final confrontation turns out to be the farmer's son Sanjuro met at the beginning of the film. When the rest of the gang get slaughtered and he's the only one left, the boy starts screaming for his mother, which stays Sanjuro's blade and saves his life.
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Yojimbo / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Yojimbo / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Sanjuro translates to "thirty-year-old" but the ronin then states his real age is closer to forty. Toshiro Mifune was indeed forty-years old when making the movie.
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Yojimbo / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Yojimbo / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Sanjuro wrecks the hell out of the house after freeing Nui in order to trick Ushitora into thinking she was freed by Seibei's men.
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Yojimbo / int_505f6a99	type	Showdown at High Noon
Yojimbo / int_505f6a99	comment	Showdown at High Noon: Sanjuro prepares for a Jidaigeki version of the showdown â€” problem is, his opponent has the only revolver in town.
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Yojimbo / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Yojimbo / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The local constable openly recruits for the gangs instead of trying to stop them, because he gets a rake-off for every man he brings them. The Inspector from Edo doesn't even notice that there's a gang war going on, because he's too busy trolling for bribes and being fawned over by everyone in town until Ushitora figures out how to make him leave.
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Yojimbo / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
Yojimbo / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: The casket-maker has this attitude, at least until things escalate to the point where nobody cares about burying the dead any more, at which point he has no more customers. SanjÅ«rÅ� himself, at first. While he tells Gonji he's going to get rid of the gangs, his reasoning is basically summed up by the fact that he gets to kill men who deserve to die and get paid for it.
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Yojimbo / int_5ee26f31	type	Adaptation Amalgamation
Yojimbo / int_5ee26f31	comment	Adaptation Amalgamation: While the movie's main influence is generally accepted as Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett's later novel The Glass Key (more specifically, its 1942 movie) was the only one Kurosawa himself outright cited. While the overall plot is definitely closer to the former, it does homage in the latter in particular scene where the hero gets seven shades of shit beaten out of him.
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Yojimbo / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Yojimbo / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Tazaemon, the silk merchant, falls victim to this. His grip on reality is tenuous even at the start of the film, and by the end he appears to have gone completely insane.
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Yojimbo / int_688238d6	type	Wimp Fight
Yojimbo / int_688238d6	comment	Wimp Fight: SanjÅ«rÅ� manipulates the two gangs into fighting each other by making one think they've just managed to hire him onto their side, so they announce an attack, only for SanjÅ«rÅ� to just refuse. The two gangs are rather evenly matched and correspondingly clearly fearful about fighting each other in force with the outcome in doubt, but are unwilling to admit to a lack of mettle, and continuously inch forward and back to and from each other before a messenger announces an official is arriving into town so the gangs go off to conceal their conflict.
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Yojimbo / int_688bddeb	type	Guns vs. Swords
Yojimbo / int_688bddeb	comment	Guns vs. Swords: Sanjuro's katana vs. Unosuke's revolver. It should be noted that the gun makes Unosuke the only person in the movie who is a threat to Sanjuro until he finds a way to take it out of play.
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Yojimbo / int_6b22aace	type	Not So Invincible After All
Yojimbo / int_6b22aace	comment	Not So Invincible After All: Sanjuro is by far the best swordfighter in the movie, and for much of the movie, he easily beats all opponents. However, he still needs to watch his back around Unosuke, the only person in town who carries a gun.
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Yojimbo / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Yojimbo / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: Sanjuro warns the thugs in the English dub just before killing (and, in one case, dismembering) three of them, "It might hurt a little."
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Yojimbo / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
Yojimbo / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: Unosuke and his overconfidence in his gun are no match for a superbly trained samurai like SanjÅ«rÅ�, who defeats him easily with his throwing knife and a single deadly katana blow.
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Yojimbo / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
Yojimbo / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: Yojimbo means "bodyguard."
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Yojimbo / int_8ba5626c	type	Distressed Drink Jitters
Yojimbo / int_8ba5626c	comment	Distressed Drink Jitters: After Sanjuro signs on with Seibei's gang, the leader almost immediately declares he will have an all-out war with his rival Ushitora. While he boasts of imminent victory, his anxiety about fighting to the death is obvious from the way the sake cup quivers in his hand, which is humorously contrasted with Sanjuro's relaxed pouring of the drink into it (and Sanjuro would be, given he has no intention of actually teaming up with either gangster, much less one he just overheard planning to betray and kill him after to avoid paying him.)
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Yojimbo / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Yojimbo / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: At the end following the Curb-Stomp Battle of Sanjuro, Mayor Tazaemon chases Tokuemon with a knife and kills him.
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Yojimbo / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Yojimbo / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified here. In the Edo period, peasants had surnames but were not allowed to say them in public unless they had special privileges, hence why most of the villagers solely use their first names. Only Seibei's family and Ushitora's family have their surnames revealed since they both hold powerful positions over the locals.
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Yojimbo / int_91495e52	type	Heads or Tails?
Yojimbo / int_91495e52	comment	Heads or Tails?: The film's opening shot shows SanjÅ«rÅ� arriving at a fork in the road. After a few seconds of pondering, he throws a stick into the air and bases his decision on where it lands. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Yojimbo / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Yojimbo / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Quite a few of these. This is one reason this movie stands the test of time so well. In fact, although the plot revolves around the threat of violence, very little screentime actually depicts violence, so it hardly fits the modern concept of "action movie".
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Yojimbo / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Yojimbo / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: The prequels Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo and Machibuse add more context to certain scenes. When Unosuke shows off the revolver he acquired, Sanjuro only closes the windows after witnessing Unosuke fire off three shots without reloading. In the prequels, the gunslingers Sanjuro fought wielded single-shot percussion guns, so this is Sanjuro's first time seeing a repeating firearm. Likewise, Sanjuro's antagonism towards Unosuke is due to his experience with another Samurai Cowboy Kuzuryu, who betrayed him and almost killed his love interest Umeno. Sanjuro's rescue of Nui has an added layer of sadness considering that Nui may have reminded Sanjuro of his past love interests, especially Okuni who was also a Damsel in Distress.
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Yojimbo / int_9f7769a2	type	The Gunslinger
Yojimbo / int_9f7769a2	comment	Although Sanjuro is a professional killer like the characters he inspired, his main weapon is a sword rather than a gun. In fact, with the exception of Unosuke, all of Sanjuro's enemies wield blades, meaning most of the battles revolve around sword duels rather than gunfights. This also changes the climatic showdown as it is not a battle in which the protagonist defeats the Big Bad in a gunfight by proving himself to be the superior gunslinger but rather a David Versus Goliath match in which a swordsman has to defeat a gunslinger by overcoming the technological advantage a gun has over a sword.
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Yojimbo / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Yojimbo / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The scene where SanjÅ«rÅ� is thrown around by his face is an homage to the 1942 film version of The Glass Key.
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Yojimbo / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
Yojimbo / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: Ushitora's gang and Seibei's gang have been fighting for quite some time before Sanjuro's arrival.
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Yojimbo / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Yojimbo / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: SanjÅ«rÅ� shows he's a crack-shot as a knife thrower by passing the time throwing a knife at a dry leaf blowing around in the wind. It helps him to defeat Unosuke, the gun wielder.
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Yojimbo / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Yojimbo / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Kannuki tosses SanjÅ«rÅ� around like a ragdoll during one of the torture sessions, breaking the lock on a storage box at one point. SanjÅ«rÅ� hides in said box to trick the guards into thinking that he has escaped and then makes a break for it as they go on the hunt. Inokichi unknowingly helps Gonji carry SanjÅ«rÅ� out of town in the coffin.
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Yojimbo / int_ad97c3a0	type	Samurai Cowboy
Yojimbo / int_ad97c3a0	comment	Unosuke is an early example of a Samurai Cowboy as he is a Japanese thug who wields a katana and an American revolver. While this makes him sound like a badass on paper, the movie also deconstructs this by establishing that Unosuke is a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond as he is the only gunslinger in a town where everyone else fights with swords or other melee weapons. As a result, Unosuke never actually draws his katana in combat since his revolver's ranged lethality renders it obsolete. In addition, he admits that Sanjuro is the best swordsman in town, so challenging Sanjuro to a sword fight would have been suicide.
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Yojimbo / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
Yojimbo / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Hachi smashes a porcelain bottle over Kuma's head when the two are bickering.
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Yojimbo / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Yojimbo / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: Much like the actual yakuza, the word is never spoken aloud (the cast prefer the term "gambler," since the local racket started with the gambling business), but Yojimbo is basically a mob movie. It's not a particularly flattering depiction; the vice they trade in looks as cheap, sleazy, and tawdry as it is, and for most of the picture both gangs are too cowardly to even bother having a proper battle in the street, preferring to rough up innocent people, or at least those they don't yet know can fight back.
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Yojimbo / int_be85ff22	type	Contract on the Hitman
Yojimbo / int_be85ff22	comment	Contract on the Hitman: Sanjuro leaves the first family he hires himself out to because he overhears them plotting to kill him when the job is finished, to avoid paying him.
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Yojimbo / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
Yojimbo / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: This film is probably the codifying example, at least in cinema. It's the most identifiable element in the remakes A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing, and the film is often cited as a primary influence on later works that revolve around this premise.
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Yojimbo / int_c84e56a2	type	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
Yojimbo / int_c84e56a2	comment	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You: Based on the poster, SanjÅ«rÅ� is either going to cut your throat or take your head off with his katana.
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Yojimbo / int_c9954979	type	Crippling the Competition
Yojimbo / int_c9954979	comment	Crippling the Competition: Sanjuro is beaten senseless for rescuing the family that Ushitora's gang was holding hostage, one of them as a Sex Slave.
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Yojimbo / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Yojimbo / int_ca87e3ec	comment	Sanjuro never reveals his real name, but it's justified here. Unlike peasants, samurai had the right of using their surnames in public, and a samurai's surname would have denoted his aristocratic bloodline. However, Sanjuro became a rÅ�nin after losing the rank of samurai, so his decision to go by a fake name holds more significance since it represents his new life as a homeless nobody. Furthermore, Sanjuro's new alias is a ridiculous name that is Played for Laughs as it translates to "thirty-year-old mulberry field" or "thirty-year-old camellia" in a later adventure. In fact, most characters just refer to him as "the samurai" or "the two-bit samurai" if they're feeling disrespectful.
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Yojimbo / int_ccd7abf5	type	Fakeout Escape
Yojimbo / int_ccd7abf5	comment	Fakeout Escape: SanjÅ«rÅ�'s escape from Ushitora's house starts by crawling inside a large wooden chest, to make everyone think he's already escaped.
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Yojimbo / int_cd8ca67a	type	DoubleSubverted
Yojimbo / int_cd8ca67a	comment	Double Subverted by Sanjuro himself. Sanjuro divulges his full name to Seibei, but said name was made up on the spot.
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Yojimbo / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Yojimbo / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Yojimbo. It's even an example in English: Bodyguard.
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Yojimbo / int_d3c6cf4f	type	Unwilling Suspension
Yojimbo / int_d3c6cf4f	comment	Unwilling Suspension: Ushitora's gang to that to Gonji in the climax for the help he gave to Sanjuro. The coffin maker frees him when Ushitora and his remaining men are busy in the final showdown with Sanjuro.
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Yojimbo / int_d5316706	type	Prematurely Marked Grave
Yojimbo / int_d5316706	comment	Prematurely Marked Grave: The local gravedigger sizes up SanjÅ«rÅ� for the coffin he will need to build.
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Yojimbo / int_dc1b5212	type	Sparing the Final Mook
Yojimbo / int_dc1b5212	comment	Sparing the Final Mook: Sanjuro defeats most of the gang, and sees that the last one left alive is the same young boy who was leaving his poor family's farm at the start of the movie. Seeing that the kid is no threat and terrified out of his mind, Sanjuro basically tells the kid to go home and live the life of a farmer instead of trying to be a gangster. The kid quickly complies.
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Yojimbo / int_e23cfd5c	type	Goroawase Number
Yojimbo / int_e23cfd5c	comment	Goroawase Number: SanjÅ«rÅ� is derived from an On'yomi reading of his age of 36 years (san-3, ju-10 ro[ku]-6).
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Yojimbo / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
Yojimbo / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Most of the bad guys, except for Unosuke. Inokichi's the real standout here.
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Yojimbo / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Yojimbo / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Justified here. In the Edo period, peasants had surnames but were not allowed to say them in public unless they had special privileges, hence why most of the villagers solely use their first names. Only Seibei's family and Ushitora's family have their surnames revealed since they both hold powerful positions over the locals. Double Subverted by Sanjuro himself. Sanjuro divulges his full name to Seibei, but said name was made up on the spot.
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Yojimbo / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Yojimbo / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: The local constable is useless and venal, and attempts to get a finders fee for recommending that SanjÅ«rÅ� join one side of the gang war as a mercenary.
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Yojimbo / int_eb4ee9eb	type	Guns Are Worthless
Yojimbo / int_eb4ee9eb	comment	Guns Are Worthless: While Unosuke's revolver is a devastating weapon for most of the film, it doesn't mean much when you've got a knife through the forearm of your shooting hand.
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Yojimbo / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Yojimbo / int_ece6f910	comment	Moment Killer: In a rare non-romantic example, just when SanjÅ«rÅ� has manipulated the two gangs to go all out against each other, a messenger arrives saying that an official from the capital is coming, so the fight is called off and everyone conceals the evidence that there is a gang war going on until he leaves.
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Yojimbo / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Yojimbo / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Sanjuro is the direct inspiration for the Man With No Name and, by extension, the nameless cowboy archetype, but he also justifies or subverts some of the archetype's common traits that are usually taken for granted. Like his American successors, Sanjuro is a wandering warrior, but the historical context behind his drifter status is very different. As noted by the Opening Scroll, Sanjuro became a drifter after his superiors, the shoguns, lost power in 1860, an early sign that the samurai class, along with the rÅ�nin class, was becoming increasingly obsolete in Japan. In contrast, Sanjuro's cowboy counterparts in America are pioneers exploring the wild American territory in the west. Sanjuro never reveals his real name, but it's justified here. Unlike peasants, samurai had the right of using their surnames in public, and a samurai's surname would have denoted his aristocratic bloodline. However, Sanjuro became a rÅ�nin after losing the rank of samurai, so his decision to go by a fake name holds more significance since it represents his new life as a homeless nobody. Furthermore, Sanjuro's new alias is a ridiculous name that is Played for Laughs as it translates to "thirty-year-old mulberry field" or "thirty-year-old camellia" in a later adventure. In fact, most characters just refer to him as "the samurai" or "the two-bit samurai" if they're feeling disrespectful. Although Sanjuro is a professional killer like the characters he inspired, his main weapon is a sword rather than a gun. In fact, with the exception of Unosuke, all of Sanjuro's enemies wield blades, meaning most of the battles revolve around sword duels rather than gunfights. This also changes the climatic showdown as it is not a battle in which the protagonist defeats the Big Bad in a gunfight by proving himself to be the superior gunslinger but rather a David Versus Goliath match in which a swordsman has to defeat a gunslinger by overcoming the technological advantage a gun has over a sword. Unosuke is an early example of a Samurai Cowboy as he is a Japanese thug who wields a katana and an American revolver. While this makes him sound like a badass on paper, the movie also deconstructs this by establishing that Unosuke is a Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond as he is the only gunslinger in a town where everyone else fights with swords or other melee weapons. As a result, Unosuke never actually draws his katana in combat since his revolver's ranged lethality renders it obsolete. In addition, he admits that Sanjuro is the best swordsman in town, so challenging Sanjuro to a sword fight would have been suicide.
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Yojimbo / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Yojimbo / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Averted, although they give it a good try.
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Yojimbo / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Yojimbo / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Ushitora seeks to usurp his old boss and take over the town.
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Yojimbo / int_f50b1e05	type	Shoo the Dog
Yojimbo / int_f50b1e05	comment	Shoo the Dog: When the family Sanjuro's helping is too shellshocked to do anything but thank him:
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Yojimbo / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
Yojimbo / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: SanjÅ«rÅ� warns three mooks that mocked him earlier. Said mooks are all sentenced to death if caught and seem quite proud of it. SanjÅ«rÅ� has thus no qualms and slays them all as a demonstration of his skills to the town's populace and utters the following badass line.
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Yojimbo / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Yojimbo / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: During the final battle, Sanjuro meets the young man he encountered in the beginning of the movie as he's begging for mercy. He reminds the kid of the boring, gruel-eating life of a farmer he shunned, noting how much better it seems after the end of a bloody gang war.
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Yojimbo / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Yojimbo / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog SanjÅ«rÅ� manages to save a family that's been caught between the quarrels of the two gangs, which makes him less overtly antiheroic. In order to act a little more rugged, SanjÅ«rÅ� threatens them with death if they don't get the hell out of there fast enough. He does so with good reason: if they're caught, they'll likely be killed. He also drags his beaten body out for a final showdown with the Ushitora gang rather than let them kill Gonji. Also, at the very beginning of the film, he chances to see a farm boy quarreling with his parents; he intends to join one of the gangs, thinking that the excitement and riches are preferable to a boring life of farming and eating gruel. Near the end of the film, SanjÅ«rÅ� actually has that same farmer-turned-gangster at swordpoint. Rather than cut him down, though, SanjÅ«rÅ� just remarks to him that perhaps the gruel-eating life is better than this and orders him to leave. The boy, elated at this mercy, obeys and runs off.
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