A Fistful of Dollars may have been the film that turned Clint Eastwood into a star, but it's also a clear copy of the earlier released samurai epic, Yojimbo. Before A Fistful of Dollars, Eastwood ...

For his latest film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee has turned to one of his influences, and one of cinema’s most iconic ...

Yojimbo is one of the most enduring creations of the "emperor" of modern Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa. The 20th film of a 30-strong canon, it stars Kurosawa's celebrated protege, Toshiro Mifune ...

Director Akira Kurosawa and star Toshiro Mifune did some of their finest work together with this pair of films from the early 1960s, and the Criterion Collection has now released them in sparkling ...

Bruce Willis starred in this 1996 update of Akira Kurosawa's classic samurai movie, Yojimbo, titled Last Man Standing.

“Usagi Yojimbo” is set in Japan at the dawn of the 17th century, after the first Tokugawa shoguns established their military dictatorship, ending an era of civil wars.

Stan Sakai’s much-admired comic book Usagi Yojimbo is being developed as a feature film. Upstart studio Lintika Films has been chosen to produce the project. They won the rights from Sakai based ...