Coming into this class I had never seen Yojimbo or read the Glass Key, but I had seen A Fistful of Dollars many times. I have been trying over the course of our class to find what is so compelling to me about Yojimbo. Having already seen pretty much the exact same story in A Fistful of Dollars, the Kurosawa’s classic somehow resonates even more. There are two major ways in which the films differ: Yojimbo is in black and white and A Fistful of Dollars is in color, and Yojimbo is set in Japan, while A Fistful of Dollars is “set” in the American West although it was filmed in Spain. But this blog will not be relegated to a simple comparison of the films; it is intended to be an analysis of what the true genre of Kurosawa’s film should be and why it is […]
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