Classic Movies Live, Episode 14: Yojimbo
December 23, 2020
This week on Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff explore the origins of Revisionist Western Cinema by looking at one of the most influential movies on the genre: Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 samurai cinema classic Yojimbo!
Despite not technically being a western, Yojimbo‘s influence on the genre is massive, having been remade more often as a Western than… well, probably any other Western film. Kurosawa’s simple story about a samurai rooting out corruption in a small town was also the inspiration — some would say more than that — for legendary Spaghetti Western pioneer Sergio Leone’s first foray into the genre.
Tune in to hear our thoughts on samurai cinema, the western genre, and whether or not Yojimbo — and while we’re at it, A Fistful of Dollars — holds up!
