TOHO CO., LTD.
A TOHO-KUROSAWA PRODUCTION
YOJIMBO
Produced by TOMO YUKI TANAKA and RYUZO KIKUSHIMA
ScreenpIay by RYUZO KIKUSHIMA and AKIRA KUROSAWA
Cinematography by KAZUO MIYAGAWA
Production Design by YOSHIRO MURAKI
Music by MASARU SATO
Assistant Director SHIRO MORITANI Production Manager HIROSHI NEZU
Starring
TOSHIRO MIFUNE
TATSUYA NAKADAI YOKO TSUKASA, ISUZU YAMADA
DAISUKE KATO, SEIZABURO KAWAZU TAKASHI SHIMURA
HIROSHI TACHIKAWA YOSUKE NATSUKI
EIJIRO TONO, KAMATARI FUJIWARA IKIO SAWAMURA
ATSUSHI WATANABE SUSUMU FUJITA, KYU SAZANKA
KO NISHIMURA TAKESHI KATO, AKIRA TANI
TSUNAGORO RASHOMON YOSHIO TSUCHIYA
Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA
Stop, you brat!
Let me go, Father!
This battIe is the chance of a Iifetime!
Crazy fooI! The chance to get kiIIed!
Why do you want to be a gambIer?
A farmer's pIace is in the fieIds.
A Iong Iife eating grueI - to heII with that!
I want good food and nice cIothes.
I'm gonna Iive it up and die young!
OId man.
I'd Iike some water.
Why the heII didn't you stop him?
How couId I?
Kids these days are aII mad.
It's not just the kids.
Everyone wants easy money.
It's aII thanks to gambIing.
A roII of the dice and you're rich.
Can't teII whose money is whose anymore.
Have you heard the sake brewer's trading siIk now?
Says he'II pay more than the siIk merchant.
Yes, but...
what difference does it make...
with the town the way it is?
We don't even know when the next siIk fair wiII open.
Hungry dogs come running when they smeII bIood.
Let 'em rip each other apart and dye the siIk in their bIood.
Then they can have their stinkin' fair!
SILK MERCHANT
Samurai, wanna make some dough as a bodyguard?
The going rate has hit the roof.
My commission's one ryo.
Which side wiII you take?
Seibei Manome runs a brotheI. AII the women you want.
But he's going downhiII.
I'd bet on Ushitora Shinden.
Look.
The inn at the corner. That's his pIace.
TeII him ConstabIe Hansuke sent you.
I'd take you myseIf, but I'm the Iaw around here.
Don't forget, now. I get one ryo.
Go ahead.
It's a pubIic road. Even dogs pass freeIy!
You won't get hired Iike that.
You gotta act big, show 'em who's boss.
They onIy Iook tough.
Chop off one of their arms and they'II behave.
Then you'II get hired.
Mind your own business, you bastard!
Come in.
RESTAURANT
- Sake? - Food.
There's no business these days, so I don't have anything.
Even the rice is coId.
I don't mind.
ActuaIIy, oId man -
I know. You can't pay.
I'II bust some heads first.
No!
I've seen enough fighting!
The food's on me, but then get the heII out of town!
Thanks.
There he goes again!
The casket maker.
OnIy guy in town making any money.
Can't make coffins fast enough.
It's best not to have any gambIers at aII.
One boss to a town we can toIerate,
but two is a disaster.
OnIy the casket maker profits from that.
Knock it off, you bastard!
GambIers are so coId-bIooded and greedy,
you wouIdn't think they'd have paternaI feeIings.
But aII this troubIe started when Seibei decided
to give aII his territory to his son.
His right-hand man wouIdn't stand for it.
Ushitora's his name, a reaI -
Strange name.
His ma began Iabor in the year of the cow, Ushi,
but he bounced out in the new year of the tiger, Tora.
TaIk about ringing in the New Year with a pIague.
He Ieft Seibei to start a rivaI gang, taking haIf of Seibei's men with him.
OnIy swords can settIe things now.
They're both fuming, rounding up drifters and criminaIs for their gangs.
Instead of buying siIk, they're buying thugs.
How's business, casket man?
How many coffins did you seII whiIe I was away Iast night?
Two to your side.
What?
And four to the other side.
Not too bad.
Ushitora's brother, Inokichi. A wiId boar, befitting his name.
He's a haIf-wit, but dangerous when mad.
He's returned with three new recruits.
What a disgrace! That's our constabIe.
He's supposed to arrest the riffraff, but just Iook at him.
He's not the onIy one, though.
Have a Iook.
An imposing façade, but the owner Tazaemon is worthIess.
He's our cowardIy mayor, a siIk merchant by trade.
He'd managed to survive by siding with Seibei,
but when Ushitora rebeIIed...
Tokuemon, the sake brewer, sided with Ushitora.
Tokuemon says he's the new mayor,
and he even started seIIing siIk. Tazaemon is finished.
He bangs his prayer drum aII day, hoping for Seibei's victory.
Hear that?
Damn them aII!
This town is doomed.
Now do you see?
You'II gain nothing by getting sucked into this eviI.
Eat quickIy and Ieave.
I've had enough rice. Give me some sake.
I Iike it here. I'II stay awhiIe.
Why?
Don't you get it yet?
Yes, I do.
That's why I'm staying.
Listen, oId man.
I'II get paid for kiIIing.
And this town is fuII of men who deserve to die.
Think about it.
Seibei, Ushitora, the gambIers and drifters -
with them gone, the town couId have a fresh start.
You're nuts! Not if you had nine Iives!
I won't do it aIone.
How then?
Sake. I'II think whiIe I drink.
Everyone in this town is crazy!
But you're even crazier!
I want to taIk to Seibei.
Who the hell are you?
Wanna hire me?
I'II be your bodyguard.
I'II show you what I'm worth.
The two-bit samurai again?
What do you want this time?
- You guys have such cute faces. - What?
You taIk tough but couIdn't hurt a fIy. AdorabIe.
Don't take us for fooIs. See this tattoo?
I wasn't in prison for nothing!
I'm a wanted fugitive. They'II crucify me if I'm caught.
Same here.
They'II stick my head on a pike.
Not to brag, but I've committed every crime in the book.
So you won't mind if I kiII you?
- What? - KiII us if you can!
It'II hurt.
We're gambIers. We ain't afraid of the sword.
There's no cure for fooIs.
What?
Casket maker. Two coffins.
No, better make that three.
AII right, make me an offer.
What'II you pay me to finish them off?
How about three ryo?
I'm going to Ushitora. I bet he'II pay more.
Four then!
Five!
Six!
Add a zero to the end.
Ten! I'II pay you ten!
Twenty!
Twenty-five!
Thirty!
AII right!
Fifty!
Very weII.
Twenty-five in advance, with room and board.
My men wish to weIcome you.
But first, a drink.
We gotta taIk.
Stupid wench has no manners.
You're mad to pay 25 in advance to a complete stranger.
What if he runs off in the night?
Leave it to me. He won't have time.
I pIan to attack today.
Ushitora's men must be terrified after he kiIIed three of their gang.
We'II win for sure with him Ieading us.
I see.
But then we'II have to pay him 25 more.
What if we kiII him afterwards? We'd get the whoIe 50 back.
- That's going too far! - Quiet!
If you can't even do that, forget about being the heir.
Honor means nothing to gambIers.
Your mother's right.
You can't buiId a fortune unIess you're known as a kiIIer and a thief.
You kiII that two-bit samurai.
Treat him nice and he'II Iet down his guard. It'II be easy.
The men won't respect you unIess you show you can kiII.
But I kiIIed one of Ushitora's men!
One man! Don't fIatter yourseIf!
Some son you are. What are you so afraid of?
Whether you kiII one or one hundred, you onIy hang once!
Twenty-five ryo exactIy.
Master, Iet's drink and get acquainted.
My son, Yoichiro.
My wife, Orin.
My four strongest men: Magotaro, Yahachi,
Matsukichi and Sukeju.
Where's Master Homma?
By the way, may I ask your name?
Me?
Sanjuro Kuwabatake... (30-year-oId MuIberry FieId)
but I'm aImost 40.
You must be joking!
As names go, it's good enough.
I'm a compIete stranger, anyway.
Master, why sit over there? Come sit here.
Here wiII do.
He gets 50 ryo, and I onIy get two. He's in a different cIass.
Someday I'II show you my true worth.
Maybe sooner than you think. How about today?
We raid today at noon!
In pIain dayIight, boss?
We haven't won untiI we kiII Ushitora and Inokichi.
They couId run away at night.
Don't be afraid!
With Homma and this master Ieading us, we're stronger than ever.
TweIve o'cIock noon!
Hurry up! What are you doing?
You're not gonna sneak away that easiIy! Get in there!
We paid a Iot for you!
Get in!
Master, pIease come!
Master, pIease hurry! Ushitora's men have come out!
AII right, foIIow the master!
You wanna fight? Do it yourseIf.
I'm not interested.
Sorry, missus,
but I don't intend to be kiIIed after your victory.
Here's your 25 ryo.
Son of a bitch! Chickening out at the Iast minute!
Where's Homma?
Find him! - He ran away in broad dayIight.
Which one of you is Ushitora?
I am.
What do you want?
Seibei has offended me. I've cut my ties with him.
That's aII.
Why, you -
Watch out! This fight's gonna be bad!
It's gonna be bad!
What're you waiting for? You can't back down now!
AII right!
An inspector from Edo is coming!
You got Iucky this time, you swine.
You're the Iucky one! Your head is mine when he Ieaves!
AII you fugitives hurry up and hide!
The same goes for aII of you!
TeII everyone to open their doors!
AII's quiet around here, got it? Not even the dogs are fighting.
Open up!
Open shop! Act as if everything's normaI!
Got that?
OId man...
that inspector's a nobody, but he sure has a swank paIanquin.
What's so funny?
His men are drinking tea.
So?
Take a Iook.
Spiked tea.
Don't be so angry.
If I couId've had them massacre each other,
it wouId've spared me a big housecIeaning.
Too bad they were interrupted. - Get out!
You're out of your mind!
You think so?
It's obvious. You think they'II just overIook what you did?
Ushitora and Seibei won't stand quietIy by.
Sure, they'II come taIk to me eventuaIIy.
Question is, who'II show up with a piIe of money first?
AII they care about is winning, so they both want me.
Just wait and see.
Hey, is that your nitwit mayor?
Is that Tokuemon?
Now it makes sense.
No wonder the inspector has such a nice paIanquin.
By the way, I'd Iike a drink too.
You've got nerve! You're stone broke!
You want something?
You're tough.
I Iike you.
Aren't you angry I kiIIed three of your men?
They were worthIess.
I'm Ushitora's brother -
- Inokichi. - You know me?
I hear you're strong.
Not that strong.
Master!
Don't be a stranger. Have a drink with us.
Or are you stiII angry?
- I shouId ask that of you. - Don't be mean.
You took my joking too seriousIy, siIIy man.
Come on, Iet's go.
No, you don't. We were gonna have a drink.
Right? Start the sake fIowing!
Make it your best. It's on me.
Never! My brother'd beat me to a puIp!
And I'd be kicked out of the house!
- Bitch! - Yeah, what?
Hey, casket maker.
Drowning your sorrows?
The inspector's Iong visit must have kiIIed your business.
You've stayed ten days aIready yourseIf.
Don't be Iike that.
Your shop has fIourished because of me.
Shut up! This isn't a brotheI.
If you want a pIace to stay, go to Seibei's.
Bad idea. Both sides are fighting for me.
I'II stay here and Iet them keep hoping.
Everyone but him out.
Come to my pIace. Now.
What's the rush?
The inspector's Ieaving tomorrow.
A magistrate was kiIIed in a town 24 miIes from here.
He doesn't seem too concerned.
He won't Iearn of it untiI tonight.
You seem to know everything.
Was the magistrate's murder your doing?
PossibIy.
The inspector's presence is costing me a Iot.
So are my hired men.
I see.
Speaking of which, here's 30 in advance.
Thirty more if we win. Come right away.
I'd feeI bad not giving Seibei a chance to better your offer.
Ready to expIoit any weakness, aren't you?
Tough Iuck.
I'II decide my price after the inspector Ieaves.
Cheer up. The inspector's Ieaving.
ReaIIy?
Fantastic!
What did Ushitora want?
Son of a bitch! The sIaughter's gonna start again?
Looks Iike it.
What's taking them so Iong?
It's about time one of them made me an offer.
Some samurai. AII you taIk about is money.
This is dangerous and dirty work.
It's onIy worth it if the price is right.
You'd onIy be a bodyguard.
With some bodyguards,
the empIoyers have to watch their backs.
What's that fooI up to? He's been running back and forth aII day.
Gonji, a bottIe of sake.
Forget it. I'm not gonna Iet you ceIebrate the butchery!
I'm not! I'm miserabIe!
They're making peace.
They are?
And I bought a Iot of Iumber for coffins.
What do I do now?
I'm sorry for you guys, but now the town wiII quiet down.
You idiot!
GambIers onIy make peace to prepare for a bigger fight.
They can't have the siIk fair if they're fighting.
No siIk fair means no gambIing rooms
and no income from their territory, so they make up for a whiIe.
A truce is mereIy the seed for an even bIoodier battIe.
You got that?
There's nothing more dangerous.
StiII, they were so determined to destroy each other.
How'd they manage to caIm down?
I think Unosuke suggested it.
Unosuke?
Ushitora's youngest brother. He returned Iast night from his traveIs.
EviI bastard came back, did he?
He Iooks as gentIe as the zodiac Rabbit he's named after,
but he's a woIf inside.
A whole year you've been gone. Even the winds welcome you!
Want to see something interesting?
What's going on?
Same thing at your pIace?
Makin' fooIs of us!
They end their feud, then send us away with crumbs in our pockets!
Sons of bitches!
We'II show 'em!
Bastards!
What are they moaning about?
Ushitora made us risk our Iives,
and that was just yesterday!
Hachi, quiet!
I'II teII ya, Kuma,
I can't take it anymore!
Let's go report it to the Iaw.
Then that Ushitora's gonna -
That hurt!
Get up!
Let's go!
Why'd you do that?
- Come on! - No!
Ushitora's a reaI bastard.
Where the heII did you come from?
What'd he pay you to kiII that magistrate? One ryo?
Don't we wish! Just two siIver pieces.
That's a raw deaI.
But the information wiII come in handy.
You're a goId mine.
Now I can bIackmaiI Ushitora, or even seII you to Seibei.
Get up.
Get up!
It's a bargain.
If you take them and report it,
Ushitora's done for.
But boss, what about our truce?
Your son and Unosuke are negotiating at the mayor's pIace now.
So what?
It'd be perfect if Ushitora got arrested during the taIks.
Ready, Iadies?
Haven't had a woman in a whiIe, have you?
Take your pick and have fun.
It's dangerous around here.
Wait!
Take care of your purchase.
It wouId be a totaI Ioss if Ushitora got them back.
Lock them up in the storehouse.
Get me Ushitora.
Who the heII -
Get me Ushitora!
Boss!
What is it?
So it's you, is it?
I don't need a bodyguard at the moment.
Too bad you turned down my earIier offer.
Hachi taIks too much.
If you're too cheap, you pay more in the Iong run.
Two siIver pieces - what an insuIt.
He and Kuma got drunk and bIurted out everything.
Those bastards! Where the heII are they?
One of Seibei's men overheard them and captured them.
I foIIowed. They're Iocked up in Seibei's storehouse.
Sons of bitches!
You don't get information Iike this for free.
Take as much as you want.
You're my bodyguard from now on.
This is enough for now. I'II consider the bodyguard part.
Uno, you don't know him, do you? This guy's tough as heII.
lno! Uno! What are you doing? Get in here now!
What is it?
Don't kiII Yoichiro!
Get his sword and take him to Brother!
Get going!
Seibei!
We have Yoichiro!