FILM 1291: YOJIMBO
TRIVIA: Akira Kurosawa told Toshirô Mifune that his
character was like a wolf or a dog and told Tatsuya Nakadai that his
character was like a snake. Inspired by this direction, Mifune came up with
Sanjuro's trademark shoulder twitch, similar to the way a dog or wolf tries to
get off fleas.
Akira Kurosawa challenged
his assistant directors to come up with an image for the film to let Sanjuro
know he was entering a bad town. He shot down all of their ideas, since all of
them had already been done. Kurosawa himself then came up with the idea of the
dog carrying the human hand.
"Yojimbo" means
"bodyguard" in Japanese.
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