"Yojimbo"
1962
Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Kurosawa's first full-length comedy. Toshiro Mifune is the unemployed samurai warrior who comes to a small village torn apart by two warring factions where he is hired first by one side, then by the other. "Explosively comic and exhilarating," said Pauline Kael. Japanese with English subtitles.
110 minutes.