Yojimbo : Akira Kurosawa
"G o home to your mother and live a long-life eating gruel” -Sanjuro [Toshiro] One of the best philosophical directions of human life; either live a long life peacefully or live a lavish short life, I have found in the Yojimbo [1961]. What man is quest for ultimately; especially in the realm of arts & cultures is always a big and unsolved question to me. There may not be an exact answer we can get, not in the past, present and not even in future. Since I have been watching Kurosawan films some contemplation appears in my mind that: literally I have observed that humans are not capable of seeing the complete sequences of lives of a person, a family or group at once. Reading can give a glimpse of them; but films make better because of its advantage of auditory, visual and common engagement with the form. Yojimbo [1961] is one of the thrilling and aesthetically pure in the genre of political allegory I have seen as of today. I have found a sheer semblance wi...