Production
Many of the actors in Yojimbo worked with Kurosawa before and after, especially ToshirÅ Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Tatsuya Nakadai.
After Kurosawa scolded Mifune for arriving late to the set one morning, Mifune made it a point to be ready on set at 6:00 AM every day in full makeup and costume.
At one point the hero, beaten, disarmed and left for dead, recovers in a small hut where he practices with his throwing knife by pinning a fluttering leaf. This effect was created by reversing the film: in reality, the leaf was pinned, the knife yanked away by a wire, and the leaf blown away.
This was the second film on which director Akira Kurosawa had worked with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.
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