\u00c2\u00a0I haven’t seen a Japanese movie before, or\u00c2\u00a0a film with\u00c2\u00a0subtitles throughout the whole movie, so that was hard to get used.\u00c2\u00a0 At first, I thought the movie was boring, but then as the plot thickened, it got interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 The samurai\u00c2\u00a0is tough and everyone is so scared of him, yet he uses his mind,\u00c2\u00a0more than\u00c2\u00a0his strength to defeat the evildoers in the town.\u00c2\u00a0 I also noticed that the fight scene where the samurai is beat up is very similar to The Glass Key, and his escape was also like Ned’s escape.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I found there to be a likeness to Kill Bill as well, and I know that Tarantino\u00c2\u00a0took a lot of inspiration from this type of movie.\u00c2\u00a0 The first thing that I noticed\u00c2\u00a0is that the wife’s name is Oren, and that is the name of Lucy Liu’s character in Kill Bill too.\u00c2\u00a0 Both characters are strong women, who eventually get killed.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, Oren in Yojimbo runs a brothel, and Liu’s Oren posed as a prostitute to kill an enemey.\u00c2\u00a0 Oren is the wife of a mob boss in Yojimbo, and Oren is the Japanese mob boss in Kill Bill.\u00c2\u00a0 Based on these similarities, I think that there is a good chance that Tarantino might have based Liu’s character on Kurasawa’s Oren.<\/p>\n
I also found another scene in Yojimbo that I think Tarantino used in Kill Bill.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end, the samurai scolds the boy whom he encounterd at the beginning of the film, and sends him\u00c2\u00a0back to his family instead of killing him.\u00c2\u00a0 The bride in Kill Bill,\u00c2\u00a0 has a similar scence when she fights the crazy 88.\u00c2\u00a0 She spanks a young man, and then lets him go, instead of killing him like she did the rest of her attackers.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
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