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Yojimbo (1961): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Yojimbo is a 1961 drama, thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It scores 8.2 on IMDb, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, 93 on Metacritic, 8.1 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 82 while Metacritic critics give it 93, a gap of 11 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 2 of 72 films from 1961 in our catalog and number 25 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Seizaburō Kawazu.

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