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Wonderful character development!

That was an excellent one.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Yojimbo is one of the many overrated titles that you're going to find on this list with the Top 250 since i found it pretty much terrible on all occassions from the acting stand point, to script, dialogue and most of all pacing which was terrible. Some people will definitely enjoy it and have fun but for casual viewers like me this is an easy pass and nothing that other better movies that were released way later didn't touch upon better. (0/10)

Way back towards the end of the '90s, I saw this film on IFC and it was my very first Kurosawa film. It came on at about 10 in the morning on a Saturday, and I stopped because the film looked so distinctive. The widescreen, the black and white, and Toshiro Mifune just looked so cool standing there. It wasn't far into the movie, but after being mesmerized by what I had seen I immediately looked online to where I could buy it (in widescreen, of course, which was not a given back then) and watched it about ten times within a week. Not long after I discovered Sanjuro and all of the rest of the Kurosawa/Mifune masterpieces. It's truly amazing to watch this and notice how current it feels, how the pacing is perfect, how funny it is, how sudden the violence takes place, and the overwhelming sense of danger that constantly envelops the entire film.It's brilliant, it's fun, and it's always entertaining, it's simply a masterpiece of filmmaking.

In 1860, during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate,a rōnin (masterless samurai) wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside. While stopping at a farmhouse, he overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son has given up farm labouring in order to run off and join the rogues who have descended on a nearby town that has become divided by a gang war. The stranger heads to the town where he meets the owner of a small Izakaya who advises him to leave. He tells the rōnin that the two warring clans are led by Ushitora and Seibei. The silk merchant and mayor back Seibei while the sake brewer is allied with Ushitora. But after sizing up the situation, the stranger says he intends to stay as the town would be better off with both sides dead.

Greetings from Lithuania."Yôjinbô" (1961) is a very entertaining movie even if you are watching it first time in 2015. Acting was very good, especially by Toshirô Mifune whom i didn't like much in previous Akira Kurosawa's movies - he was always overacting, playing it over the top. Here he is very good. Story itself is intriguing and very well paced, at running time 1 h 50 min this movie barely drags and is entertaining from start till finish. I read that "Yôjinbô" inspired many westerns and one was inspired by them and that is true - the plot is very similar here to many westerns, especially with Clint Eastwood famous "Dollars" trilogy. Overall, "Yôjinbô" can be safely called a classic, it's truly is, because even seeing this film first time in 2015 one can admire its craftsmanship. Story is intriguing, acting is good, and nevertheless you have seen this story by now many times, you should definitely check out "Yôjinbô" - it's great entertainment.