Free Screening of Yojimbo @ Broad Street Ministry

January 17, 2012 in Movies,Philadelphia with 2 Comments

 

Pulp Cinema, a little outfit that I am helping out with will be doing a free screening of Akira Kurosawa’s samurai classic Yojimbo at The Broad Street Ministry on February 6th  at 7pm. The film will be presented in 16mm and is in Japanese with English subtitles.

If you’re not familiar with story of Yojimbo it’s about a ronin (a masterless samurai), played by Kurosawa regular Toshirō Mifune. One day he arrives in a small town currently in the clutches of competing crime lords, who all make their money from gambling.

Yojimbo means bodyguard in Japanese, and the samurai craftily pits both crime lords against one another to eradicate them as they both vie to win him as their bodyguard.

Check out the trailer below!

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2 Responses to “Free Screening of Yojimbo @ Broad Street Ministry”

  1. Dan Koch January 17, 2012 at 2:33 pm #

    Yojimbo is an extraordinary movie — Kurosawa at his most entertaining, and Mifune at his most badass. I’ll be there.

  2. Rafael Alicea January 18, 2012 at 12:41 pm #

    Would love to see this. Many other films have copied that storyline. It’d be nice to see where they got it from.

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