Yojimbo : Ideology and Interpretation

Yojimbo: Ideology and Interpretation Yojimbo was supervised by Akira Kurosawa in 1961. This is the story of 19 Japanese villages, controlled by the two opposite merchants and their families. A warrior 's visit to look for work as a killed murderer suspended their controversy about gambling concessions. Samurai, 30 Lang, you can use his skills to use two gangs with a sword. This story is the sarcastic of the oriental people in the western Hollywood.

In the Japanese movie, Director Akira Kurosawa who won the Oscar Award produced Yojimbo (1961). Like the previous movie, it has extensive influence all over the world. The impact of this movie is most evident in Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964) and Walter Hill's "Last Man Standing" (1996). Yosingbo is also the origin of the trend of "unknown man". New Hollywood is the period after the decline of the studio system of the 1950s and 1960s and the end of the production code (replaced by the MPAA movie rating system in 1968). In the 1970s, filmmakers increased the portrayal of explicit sexual content and demonstrated firefights and battle scenes, including images of blood death - this is Wes Craven's "Last Last House" (1972) That is a good example.

The above picture is still from A Fistful of Dollars by Sergio Leone. This is similar to Yojimbo's similarity, but it also includes some remarkable differences. The influence of Kurosawa 's movie can not be denied. Two actors are placed on both sides of the foreground frame, and one actor is in the background. However, many of the elements in this section are still different from the image in Kurosawa 's film. Yojimbo is still very open and well-balanced, but Leone is a bit different in this scenario. The walls on each side form actors and create a feeling that they are closed and confined. The balance of the lens is collapsed, the background actor is arranged outside the center, the composition on the right is a bit heavy