Yojimbo

Yojimbo Error creating thumbnail: File missing Film Poster Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing Directed by Akira Kurosawa Release Date 1961 Language Japanese Studio Toho Distributor Toho Company Main Cast Character Actor "Kuwabatake Sanjuro", the ronin Toshirô Mifune Unosuke Tatsuya Nakadai

The following firearms were used in the film Yojimbo:

Yojimbo is a Japanese samurai movie starring Toshirô Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, directed by Akira Kurosawa. It notably features only one gun, which plays an important role in the hands of Nakadai.

It was remade many times: A Fistful of Dollars, Django, Last Man Standing, Lucky Number Slevin, Sukiyaki Western Django, and Inferno are the most well-known. Though Kurosawa sued Leone (director of A Fistful of Dollars) for plagiarism (Kurosawa won and was a producer of the Japanese release), Yojimbo itself is unofficialy based on Dashiell Hammett's noir novel "Red Harvest."

Smith & Wesson Model 2

Unosuke the gunfighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) carries a Smith & Wesson Model 2 under his clothes and uses it in what may be the most memorable sword-vs-gun fight ever seen. (This inspired a similar moment at the end of Walter Hill's film The Warriors, which featured a knife vs. a gun.)

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Smith & Wesson Model 2 .32 Short

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Unosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai) holds his Model 2 on our hero.

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Unosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai) uses his Model 2 to dispatch the opposing gang boss.

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Cropped screen capture showing better profile of the Model 2.