Yojimbo

1961 film directed by Akira Kurosawa
Movie film Q20475
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Yojimbo

Summary

Yojimbo is a film[1]. Yojimbo ranks in the top 2% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,704 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Yojimbo's instance of is recorded as film[3].
  • Yojimbo's director is recorded as Akira Kurosawa[4].
  • Yojimbo's screenwriter is recorded as Akira Kurosawa[5].
  • Yojimbo's composer is recorded as Masaru Sato[6].
  • Yojimbo's genre is recorded as drama film[7].
  • Yojimbo's based on is recorded as Red Harvest[8].
  • Yojimbo's followed by is recorded as Sanjuro[9].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Toshirō Mifune[10].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Tatsuya Nakadai[11].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Yōko Tsukasa[12].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Isuzu Yamada[13].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Takashi Shimura[14].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Daisuke Katō[15].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Eijirō Tōno[16].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Kamatari Fujiwara[17].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Susumu Fujita[18].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Kyū Sazanka[19].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Yoshio Tsuchiya[20].
  • Yojimbo's cast member is recorded as Hiroshi Tachikawa[21].
  • Yojimbo's producer is recorded as Tomoyuki Tanaka[22].
  • Yojimbo's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 316751676[23].
  • Yojimbo's GND ID is recorded as 4789727-2[24].
  • Yojimbo's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2007061935[25].
  • Yojimbo's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 17030997f[26].
  • Yojimbo's IdRef ID is recorded as 178661562[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Yojimbo's producer is recorded as Tomoyuki Tanaka[22]. Yojimbo's director is recorded as Akira Kurosawa[4]. Yojimbo's screenwriter is recorded as Akira Kurosawa[5]. Cast members include Toshirō Mifune[10], Tatsuya Nakadai[11], Yōko Tsukasa[12], Isuzu Yamada[13], Takashi Shimura[14], and Daisuke Katō[15].

Publication

Publication dates include +1961-04-25T00:00:00Z[28], +1982-05-21T00:00:00Z[29], +1961-09-13T00:00:00Z[30], and +1961-00-00T00:00:00Z[31]. Yojimbo's original language of film or TV show is recorded as Japanese[32]. Yojimbo's genre is recorded as drama film[7].

Reception

Reviews include 8.8/10[33], 96%[34], 93/100[35], and 8.2/10[36].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Yojimbo's followed by is recorded as Sanjuro[9].

Why It Matters

Yojimbo ranks in the top 2% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,704 views/month).[2] Yojimbo has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Yojimbo is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . IMDb. Retrieved . stopklatka.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . IMDb. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Online-Filmdatenbank. Retrieved . stopklatka.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Online-Filmdatenbank. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Online-Filmdatenbank. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Online-Filmdatenbank. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [32] . wikidata.org.
  27. [33] . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [34] . wikidata.org.
  29. [35] . wikidata.org.
  30. [36] . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  31. [28] . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [29] . Lexicon of international films. wikidata.org.
  33. [30] . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [31] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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