Yojimbo [PG]

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Monday - April 28 - 7:30 PM - 110 minutes

First feature
(screens with Sanjuro)

1961

Panavision

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshiro Mifune

Kurosawa demolished the conventions of the western genre with this blackly comic story of a wily, self-centred, lone swordsman (Mifune) who arrives in a small town and seeks opportunities to profit from his blade without considerations of loyalty or morality. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. (SH)

Rating: ****

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