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    Yojimbo (Japanese: 用心棒, Hepburn: Yōjinbō, lit. Bodyguard) is a 1961 Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay...
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  • Usagi Yojimbo (兎用心棒, Usagi Yōjinbō, "rabbit bodyguard") is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai. It is set primarily at the beginning of the Edo...
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  • unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho, Yojimbo's production company. Kurosawa wrote to...
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  • Yojimbo is a 1961 film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Yojimbo may also refer to: Yojimbo (software), a personal information manager...
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  • Christopher Walken and Bruce Dern. It is a credited remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. In Prohibition-era Texas, wanderer John Smith drives into the small bordertown...
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  • This list of Usagi Yojimbo characters features characters from the Usagi Yojimbo comic book. Miyamoto Usagi – Miyamoto Usagi is the titular character...
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    Yojimbo (旋風の用心棒, trans. "Bodyguard of the Wind") is a 2001–2002 Japanese animated television series based on Akira Kurosawa's chanbara film Yojimbo....
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    Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), and Yojimbo (1961), for which Mifune won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice...
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  • Yojimbo stories features stories from the Usagi Yojimbo comic book.. "Usagi Yojimbo #18 (Jan210507)". "Usagi Yojimbo #20 (Apr210681)". "Usagi Yojimbo...
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  • Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo. Originally an adaptation of the Shūgorō Yamamoto novel Hibi Heian, the...
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  • Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (座頭市と用心棒) is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. It is the 20th of a series of films featuring the blind swordsman...
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  • Sorceress is a sword and sorcery version of the classic Kurosawa film Yojimbo. The film became notorious due to María Socas spending much of the movie...
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  • Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game by Greg Stolze using the Fuzion game engine, published by Gold Rush Games in 1997. Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying...
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    Stan Sakai (category Usagi Yojimbo)
    book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo. Sakai was born Masahiko Sakai (坂井雅彦) in Kyoto, Japan, to Akio and Teruko...
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  • organizer". Yojimbo 1.1 Yojimbo 1.3 Yojimbo 1.5 Yojimbo 2.0 Yojimbo 2.1 Yojimbo 2.2 Yojimbo 3 and new iPad version Yojimbo 4 Yojimbo 4.5 In 2007, another developer...
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  • Miller's Sin City and 300, Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, and Gerard Way's Umbrella Academy. With an emphasis on mini and limited...
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    Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), High and Low (1963) and Red Beard (1965). After the 1960s he became...
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    directly adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961). It was the subject of a lawsuit by Yojimbo's producers. Yojimbo's protagonist, an unconventional rōnin...
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  • to the swords of even most samurai. At the beginning of Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, his swordblade (presumably the same) inexplicably breaks and is sold to...
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  • Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles (category Usagi Yojimbo)
    developed by Candie and Doug Langdale. The show is loosely based on the Usagi Yojimbo comic books by Stan Sakai. Unlike its source material where the comics...
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    known in the West. He directed Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo and many others. Toshirō Mifune, arguably Japan's most famous actor, often...
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  • movie Inferno (Desert Heat) with Jean Claude Van Damme is also a remake of Yojimbo. It was directed by John G. Avildsen who asked his name to be changed from...
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  • identified in Final Fantasy X: Valefor, Ifrit, Shiva, Ixion, Bahamut, Anima, Yojimbo and the three Magus Sisters. The game builds on mythological figures through...
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    The story of A Fistful of Dollars was closely based on Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Kurosawa sued Sergio Leone for plagiarism, and was compensated with the...
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    others, have noted similarities between Red Harvest and the 1961 film Yojimbo, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Other scholars, such as Donald Richie, believe...
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  • Leone's, considered to be a loose, unofficial adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. The film earned a reputation as one of the most violent films ever made...
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  • the Boom! Comics version of the Power Rangers. Crossovers with the Usago Yojimbo series by Stan Sakai, who have frequently crossed over with the Turtles...
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    as Echo (Maya Lopez) and Hawkeye (Clint Barton).[citation needed] Usagi Yojimbo depicts an anthropomorphic rabbit rōnin main character, Miyamoto Usagi...
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  • interwoven with a sabotage premise influenced by Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo. For budget reasons, Licence to Kill became the first Bond film shot entirely...
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    in over 200 films, including Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo, and Ikiru. He also worked repeatedly for noted directors such as Yasujirō...
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