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Yojimbo
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Kill one or a hundred... you only hang once
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō
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Yojimbo (1961), directed by Akira Kurosawa, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including subtitles in seven languages
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/
Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : It seems this Kurosawa fellow was pretty prolific, so here's another one of his samurai films, the wildly influential story of a man with no name who comes to a small town controlled by two bands of criminals, and immediately sets about pitting the two groups against each other. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's a loose adaptation of Hammett's Red Harvest, but more importantly, it was adapted into other films several times, most notably as Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing, and it's almost become an archetypal story pattern now. Anyway, it's pretty excellent, starring, again, Toshirō Mifune as the mystery man, as well as Eijirō Tōno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyū Sazanka, Isuzu Yamada, and Daisuke Katō.
A wandering ronin chooses directions at a fork in the road at random. When he stops at a farmhouse for water, he hears of the criminals in a nearby town, which is contested by two gangs of yakuza. Once he arrives in town, he goes to the local tavern, and is told of the two bosses in town who are fighting over the lucrative gambling business, and have their hands in local politics and police. The ronin goes to the weaker of the two groups and offers his services, displaying his prowess by easily killing three men from the rival group. He overhears the boss' wife urging the boss to kill him, and uses this as proof of treachery, wanting to set the two groups against each other, but the arrival of a government official foils his plan. However, the ronin is not done, and won't rest until both sides are destroyed.
This is a very nice 4k remaster, although I feel like it's a little bit too dark and low in contrast. Otherwise, subtle, tight grain, fine detail, and very clean. The 3.0 mix is included to preserve the Perspecta effect, a sort of early pseudo-stereo that allowed for the sound signal to be panned, but not to have two stereo channels at once. There's also a regular mono track, and two commentary tracks.
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IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/
Video encoded in two-pass 11.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : It seems this Kurosawa fellow was pretty prolific, so here's another one of his samurai films, the wildly influential story of a man with no name who comes to a small town controlled by two bands of criminals, and immediately sets about pitting the two groups against each other. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's a loose adaptation of Hammett's Red Harvest, but more importantly, it was adapted into other films several times, most notably as Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing, and it's almost become an archetypal story pattern now. Anyway, it's pretty excellent, starring, again, Toshirō Mifune as the mystery man, as well as Eijirō Tōno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyū Sazanka, Isuzu Yamada, and Daisuke Katō.
A wandering ronin chooses directions at a fork in the road at random. When he stops at a farmhouse for water, he hears of the criminals in a nearby town, which is contested by two gangs of yakuza. Once he arrives in town, he goes to the local tavern, and is told of the two bosses in town who are fighting over the lucrative gambling business, and have their hands in local politics and police. The ronin goes to the weaker of the two groups and offers his services, displaying his prowess by easily killing three men from the rival group. He overhears the boss' wife urging the boss to kill him, and uses this as proof of treachery, wanting to set the two groups against each other, but the arrival of a government official foils his plan. However, the ronin is not done, and won't rest until both sides are destroyed.
This is a very nice 4k remaster, although I feel like it's a little bit too dark and low in contrast. Otherwise, subtle, tight grain, fine detail, and very clean. The 3.0 mix is included to preserve the Perspecta effect, a sort of early pseudo-stereo that allowed for the sound signal to be panned, but not to have two stereo channels at once. There's also a regular mono track, and two commentary tracks.
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