Yojimbo re-dubbed with A Fistful of Dollars Score

I love both Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars about equally.
But I love Ennio Morricone's score for A Fistful of Dollars the best.
So I made this out of curiosity.

[@demianhaki7598]

Toshiru Mifune: The only guy who can successfully bring a knife to a gunfight

[@Zedzian23]

+Demian Haki Agreed, also the only guy who can make a "man-bun" look good.

[@elementengine]

The Japanese were rocking that hairstyle for thousands of years

[@CaffeAddict]

And James Coburn in the Seven Magnificient?

[@JustAFilmGuy]

And Tomas Milian in "The Big Gundown"!

[@AimForMyHead81]

lol

[@empschilde]

"Children shouldn't play with swords. Go home to your mother and live a long life eating gruel!"

[@TricksterDa]

Lol. Quentin Tarantino wrote a variation of this line for Uma Thurman's character in Kill Bill, Part 1, when she spanks the young Crazy 88 henchman with the flat end of her sword.

[@MrArmystrong85]

In college I took a Japanese film class in which we watched both films simultaneously. Fistful of dollars is pretty much a shot for shot western remake of this movie.

[@artygunnar]

This movie was practically a western set in japan

[@Alastarsblade]

+MrArmystrong85 only thing I can see differently is in FOD the fight is more built up and slow paced and Ramon was the last one to die, here it seems more fast paced and the Ramon character (Unosuke) is killed first.

[@TheDumontShow]

+MrArmystrong85 i know. this is why i could never give sergio leone his credit due. he did the same thing with the magnificent seven. even though he created the "spaghetti western", i always felt he did it off the back of kurosawa kurosawa was revolutionary and brought upon a style of filmmaking that was emulated very earlier on. even tarantino has emulated him a lot.

[@donadel70]

+Arthur Yagami i would say an Estern !

[@russellbrown7028]

+MrArmystrong85 I liked the Bruce Willis remake (Last Man Standing), though it didn't get much attention at the time. Unlike in "A Fistfull of Dollars", due acknowledgement to the Japanese original appeared in the credits.

[@IVUVWEV]

I understand that a lot of people look at something like this as a cinematic thing or as a comparison between film from the west and the east but this is something that really, really helped me through a lot of difficulty in my life. Sanjuro's unflinching expression in the face of impossible and overwhelming odds along with Morricone's music that I've always associated through my childhood with the stoic and lone characters in western movies with Clint Eastwood. I found this video and have always turned to it recently, in times of childish need, i guess. It's reinforced me in a stupid way, so I like it.

[@M0butu]

Good for you then! Good luck!

[@gerigoogli]

In my dream I see something- UNDER the vast blue sky on a magnificent green field, on two opposite corners,two persons are seen approaching.One is on a brown horse,the other is on foot.They are coming closer to each other.The rider is tall,has brown eyes,cigar is held between his lips,his green shawl is wrapped around his necks.The other man is dressed as a traditional oriental with a katana tied to his belt. The two men stood face to face....then.....the man on foot just smiled and walked on.The rider reciprocated too with a smile and then tipped his poncho to another.

[@babythotloso4327]

Your beautiful 😍

[@Liquidcoat17]

Whatever works, y'know? I'm glad you've found something special. 😊

[@dunruden9720]

@@babythotloso4327 Your beautiful what?

[@dispater5023]

1:36 I love the way the smile is wiped off his face by Mifune's courageous march. "I have a gun!" *keeps walking* ... "Ummm, I have a gun??"....*keeps walking* " Shit, this dude means business".... *keeps walking* "i REALLY should have practiced my long distance running when I was younger..."

[@skull8093]

It's the age old criminals aren't looking for fights, they're looking for victims trope

[@Locahaskatexu]

What I love is that during the whole advance, Toshiro Mifune's face doesn't move a muscle... He shows no emotion whatsoever, so absolutely sure is he that he can beat the thugs, that he doesn't need to show them anything, while as yoou remarked, with each step, the chief thug becomes less and less sure of himself.

[@haganegenkotsu2180]

One of the rarest events when a copy is as good as it's original. Both successful in mastery and craftsmanship.

[@kevinmorrice]

compared to yojimbo, fistful of dollars is simply ok.

[@Regularguy220]

Not really. Dont get me wrong a fistful is great but not as good as yojimbo. Now the 2 films after fistful i would say surpass yojimbo

[@liampendergast8670]

People can argue on which film is better all day. It's only when you combine elements of both do you get something utterly breathtaking like this.

[@russellbrown7028]

Japanese cinema always has the best thugs, and they never escape whats coming to them in the last reel.

[@gustavo_oviedo]

You gotta give props to the original; a fist full of dollars wouldn't even exist in the first place if it weren't for Yojimbo.

[@Anderzander]

You’re right. This is magic !

[@davidc8077]

As much as I prefer Yojimbo over Fistful, this works really well! That's not to say I don't like Fistful, I do, but Yojimbo is just so much more compelling to me!

[@pinakinath7799]

How about thinking of a vast dusty,rocky landscape, a horse rider with poncho hat on his head and cigar lit between his lips seen coming forward. At the same time the camera looks at the opposite direction, another man in samurai attire witha katana hanging from his waist walking forward in a slow rhythmic steps. How'd it be ended? What do you think?

[@TheFlamingPike]

You should've added gun noises when Yojimbo's sword would hit the enemies lol.

[@spptube]

They thought Sanjuro will fallback and will be intimidated but he did not. What a great scene. Once he took down the guy with the gun, the rest was too easy for the master swordsman.

[@freddietz96]

One thinking man of real virtue-given the right weapon-is more dangerous than any sizable army of poltroons.

[@bol7]

I love Sergio Leone's great works, but I also dig into Yojimbo' s original score by Japanese maestro Masaru Sato. A bit Gershwin-like soundtrack, with slight humor, matches better to this masterpiece movie.

[@victorjimenez7738]

+bol7 me too i just couldn't resist

[@kameshimayama2195]

absolutely. the score from Yojimbo is genius. not to say that sergio leone and ennio morricone aren't genius, but i do prefer yojimbo to fistful of dollars. i think it still irks me that unlike the magnificent seven & 7 samurai, fistful of dollars doesn't once mention anywhere in the credits that the film is pretty much shot for shot plagiarism of yojimbo, and even steals lines word for word in some spots (i'm thinking of the "get three coffins ready... no, better make it four." scene.)

[@laughingman4402]

@@kameshimayama2195 Korsawa sued Leone and won 20% of international gross of fistful of dollars. Love Leone's work but he acted like a theif with no honour plagiarising Kurosawa's work while giving no credits

[@kingv911]

The dust blowing in behind Sanjuro in that longshot at the beginning is so great. They was he keeps his arms in his kimono always make me laugh, too.

[@annnlonggg]

Kurosawa had a thing to create more dramatic effect by using natural phenomena like weather (rain, winds, thunderstorms, even blazing sun to emphasize draught or barrenness). His love for landscapes also implied that the scenery was also 'part of the main cast'.

[@kameshimayama2195]

+anlongv the 'thing to create dramatic effect' you're referring to is motion. the reason kurosawa films are so fun to look at is because every shot is full of motion. even when the actors are silent and still, the screen will be full of the motion of the rain or the dust in the wind. it's a big part of what makes kurosawa films so genius.

[@annnlonggg]

Correct, the contrast makes up for the stillness, because otherwise the film would be plain and too contrived. It makes a film more natural and realistic.

[@user-mr6hy1iw2v]

Why did you put in a strange BGM? The original Japanese version is more serious music.

[@jacobj9907]

Yojimbo is masterpiece

[@taylordiamond9137]

Morricone's score made this 10x more badass. Love both movies, cool stuff.

[@ahonaotokodesu7719]

What a perfect match! Really sounds like the score was composed for this sequence shot by shot.

[@juckoosaurus]

they are technically the same movie with some differences but equally beautiful

[@captainnyet9855]

it basically was.

[@susannemcarlisle]

That was beautiful, man.

[@Ogrematic]

Snowball.

[@DavidCrites07]

Thanks…

[@lonchaneyslover7635]

Cowboys And samurai match made in heaven..

[@nothingbutnegativity7495]

The soundtracks of Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars are both masterpieces to me

[@hiyoko.]

なんて魅力のある俳優なんだ。 こちらに向かってくる、三船の姿に何故か涙が出た。 黒澤明、三船敏郎は最高のコンビ。 大好きな映画。

[@dionkraft6782]

Just to let everyone know - the samurai with the pistol is: Tatsuya Nakadai who stared in many films with Kurosawa and was the main actor in: Sword of Doom. Check it out.

[@heartofcinema3454]

Great timing. The bit when nakadai takes out the gun 1:07, and camera cuts to mifune , the music fits perfectly!

[@shubidowa5606]

つい、何度も見てしまう。かっこいいなあ。

[@gabrielamaya2964]

2:22 "THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU FUCK AROUND WITH YAKUZAS! GO HOME TO YOUR MOTHER!" -Kill Bill vol. 1

[@pizzaman9859]

“WHAT FAMILY DO YOU WORK FOR ANYWAY, H U H?!?!?”

[@kevinhillary4057]

0:55 my favorite part of the song and the shots match so well. Well done

[@nickmitsialis]

Here's a fun factoid (which I hope is actually correct) The leader of the gang, the man with the revolver is the same actor who played Lord Hidetora the main character in 'Ran'.

[@TricksterDa]

Tatsuya Nakadai, still alive in his mid-80s, but retired from acting I believe.

[@BongStudly]

That just put the biggest smile on my face, good show

[@SefuDonalBastet]

Split screen/ Picture in Picture in Picture: "Fist Full of Yojimbo Standing"... Watch your brain melt. Best 3 identical movies ever. New Oscar: Best Actor in a multigenerational remake: Clint Mifune Willis...

[@sirsoulbrother]

I'd like to see that.

[@SimeonFlowers]

What a cool editing idea. Thanks for doing this.

[@django7783]

A living anime doesn't exis... GOD! Seeing the characters, it's like they came directly from an anime. And the Morricone's soundtrack... IT BECAME PERFECT!

[@frankuraku5622]

There's no anime where the protaginist is a bearded badass, when they try, it's a clean shaven teen who spurts people's blood out trying to impress the audience and nosebleeds when he sees tiddies for the first time. Another reason to hate anime. The lack of manly stuff.

[@oskardirlewanger6083]

“Anything that looks stylish and cool has to be anime” is possibly the worst take possible

[@django7783]

@@oskardirlewanger6083 oh, really? I mean, It's not just the soundtrack, the coolness. The carachters at background look to have come from an anime, likewise.

[@TheSeperatistConfederacy]

@@django7783 the movie was created in 1961, so no anime

[@tinymonster9762]

That haunting trumpet is timeless.

[@soundamm7412]

I used this video as inspiration to make one of my beats, mixing japanese sounds with the main theme of A Fistful of Dollars. The connection between spaghetti western and the old classic Samurai movies is so cool.

[@KlassicLoL]

This is like that scene in Ratatouille when Remy eats the strawberry and the cheese at the same time

[@Anatidaephobe]

Simply brilliant…two of my favorites of all time, thank you! ❤

[@joelstein4657]

Maybe someone should mention his name; Akira Kurasawa, since he actually created this movie, and a lot of the best films ever made. One of the greatest directors of all time who was sadly ignored for a long time, in this country, because he was japanese.

[@millardwashington6216]

The most sincerest form of flattery

[@MannyPardoPillow1989]

if yojimbo had the dollars soundtrack it would be a 10/10 this scene is so impactful with this single song absolutely astonishing

[@mohammedashian8094]

Unfortunately one can only dream of such perfection.

[@modernape9878]

Love that smile at 1:52. Like "I'm hungry. Let's make it quick."

[@garrison6863]

To have one of the greatest actors directed in a film by the guy who I think is the greatest film director ever, unbeatable combination. That does not really need a film score. Watching a film by Kurosawa is a master class in directing.

[@davidh.2377]

A team up movie with Sanjuro and the Man with No Name would have been gold

[@196cupcake]

gives a whole new meaning to "bringing a knife to a gun fight."

[@user-sz6lx9df7r]

私は用心棒のラストシーンが殊のほか好きで御座います。私は今、訳有って、用心棒のシナリオを舐める様に読んでいる所です。ワクワクしながら、ラストシーンを堪能させて頂きました。素晴らしい機会を設けさせて下さいまして、本当に有り難かったです。心から感謝致しております。

[@hydegent]

one of the best combat scenes ..ever!

[@SuaveSpyMojo]

In Like a Dragon Isshin and Ghost of Tsushima some enemies panic when you take down their comrades, just like the youngest bandit at the end.

[@Miniskylinegt]

This is perfect! Brilliant, this is what I wanted!

[@govindtj5284]

I don't have words to describe the feel I got after watching this edit Uyir 🖤🔥

[@inkatupacamaruiicinemusica3404]

Que gran escena...y la música aún más ... Toshiro Mifune un gran actor.

[@grumpysorc3744]

God damn, that Mifune versus Nakadai is so cool in every movie at that time. Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Samurai Rebellion. Non versus is cool too - High and Low, Sword of Doom.

[@ryanwingfield6092]

I think the Sword of Doom was definitely building up to a Mifune v Nakadai duel. Such a shame its sequels got cancelled

[@MartinMShorty]

This is so beautiful, thank you.

[@theshadow3001]

First Samurai movie I ever seen and that's way back in the 70s I've been in martial arts ever since

[@akurosawa]

Close contact with director Akira Kurosawa! The camera time slipped in July 1984 at the shooting site of the movie "Ran". You can meet a master who gives gentle and polite acting guidance to actors who do not scold other than the assistant director. While attending Kwansei Gakuin University, he collaborated with a video cameraman and director as a filming assistant and audio manager at the production site of "Ran". It was an exclusive independent production with permission from Director Kurosawa. Instead of having to pay the accommodation fee, the making of random production right was granted to the Herald movie at that time, and it is out in the world

[@nobinobiii]

Killed 9 in 9 seconds LOL.　

[@annnlonggg]

BTW, the second whip sound at the end as he sheathes his katana. So very effective.

[@user-nh1du5uy6c]

身長２０３cmの羅生門綱五郎さんが良い味を出して映画を引き締めている。

[@senzanome7801]

Morricone was a GENIUS!

[@sethdegroat607]

I dare any actor currently working to do any scene of this caliber. The feal of this scene is incredible

[@RaminRnn]

What a great combination!!! thank you

[@diehardcynic]

What badassery. You sir, are a good man.

[@stylico]

Yes , this is the movie that “ inspired “ Serggio Leone !! But 2 and 3 ITS pure ART !

[@youssefbarj9770]

This was.. this was gloriously iconic

[@millwaterpublishing1387]

That worked remarkably well.

[@Tob1Kadach1]

There'll never be another Toshiro Mifune, he was something special! He was so good as Sanjuro in both films.

[@RexalQel]

This is gold, man.

[@eddymadison9655]

Sanjuro slow walk is already badass, the added western music crank it up to 11

[@HongKonDying]

Yojmbo & Fistful of dollars were same story.Its based on Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett too.

[@koizumi19691]

Mifune is a sublime.

[@tubelover413]

Fantabulous !!!

[@kevinchristie7908]

Akra Kurasawa, the best a man can get. And the music brilliant.

[@user-ns6mu9pc6y]

デブチビノッポ色んなおっちゃん出てくるけどみんな個性的で生き生きしてる。これが黒澤映画の凄さだな。

[@frostb1041]

Goddamn! This is one of the best dubs i've ever heard!

[@russelmurphy4868]

Oh, this works brilliantly!

[@Hard_Boiled_Entertainment]

Funny how much of Ennio's music from "Fistful" sounds like it would fit a samurai flick. Not the "mariachi" pieces with the trumpet, of course, but just LISTEN to the last two pieces used in this clip!

[@Professicchio]

Morricone was well aware that the "Fistful" tale had Japanese origins, also it's far from being the only "spaghetti" that is rooted in samurai film influence: check the soundtrack for "Blindman" (basically a retelling of Zatoichi) by Stelvio Cipriani for example.

[@shenzhenpingpong]

Brilliant!

[@jamesmiyake5205]

Wow! This really works!

[@LoffysDomain]

You did a good job. Thx for sharing.

[@agnel47]

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

[@kyleshiflet4915]

Both yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars are both equally great in my eyes their is no superior film

[@michaelmacleod6517]

Pure awesomeness. :)

[@scottbert9556]

Nailed it dude. Big fun.

[@Bob13Blues]

Thank you that was so cool!

[@davidgellatly1975]

to paraphrase Ugly (the Good , the Bad and the Ugly): "If you are going to shoot someone, shoot him. Don't just walk towards him!

[@40mes]

Really great. Well done.

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

That was pretty cool! Thanks!

[@nbk8264]

Samurai movie + cowboy score = masterpiece

[@mohammedashian8094]

It’s funny because akira Kurosawa was actually a big fan of westerns specifically John ford’s westerns

[@peterisnardi1197]

I wonder how the first confrontation with the yakuza where TM cuts down four would play with the "I don't think its nice, you laughing..." speech.

[@rlinton123]

loved it

[@LingormR.666]

Omfg! Sick Upload!!!

[@Htfsik]

Curiously this simply reinforces that Kurosawa and Marricone were each genuses in their fields. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@josemanuelrodriguezserrano75]

Alucinante simplemente alucinante.❤️👍👍👍

[@user-qi1he1lt7t]

Anyone here after hearing Malaikottai Valiban is inspired by this movie?

[@Chivalryaintdead]

SO MOTHER EPIC!!

[@cesmanansala6264]

Very cool!

[@veli-pekkakultanen2353]

This is why I love movies!

[@user-cc2hz3qg3b]

ฉากนี้สุดยอดคลาสสิคของผู้กำกับระดับโลกอาคิระ คุโรซาวาและพระเอกโตชิโร มีฟูนะและผู้สร้างสรรเพลงประกอบภาพยนต์คุณซาโตทำให้ผลงานการสร้างภาพยนต์เรื่องYOJIMBOดังสนั่นทั้งเกาะท้วเกาะญี่บุ่นทำรายได้ถล่มทลายและออกฉายทั่วโลกได้รับเสียงวิจารณ์จากคอลัมนิตส์ว่าสร้างได้บู้สนั่นเมืองและดราม่ามีครบทุกรสระดับนี้ต้อง Aสถานเดียวได้รับทั้งเงินและกล่องจากนักวิจารณ์ทั่วโลกสุดยอดมากครับทีสร้งผลงานชิ้นเยี่ยมประดับไว้ในโลกนี้ THANK YOU MADE IN JAPAN 1961

[@gothicbbmelvin]

Damn, that's actually pretty nice.

[@AxeManAnthony]

Nicely done.

[@daliborperkovic3918]

Perfection :D

[@jimmccrae8694]

It works beautifully, unsurprisingly.

[@JonathanFerGold]

Both Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars inspired Kill Bill. Kill Bill even uses some of Ennio Morricone's score from A Fistful of Dollars.

[@kingofkilps]

And lady snowblood (sorry for being 3 months late)

[@TheDumontShow]

+kingofkilps which is a manga written by the creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, the greatest samurai epic ever written on paper. This is why I never praise Tarantino like everyone else. Like he thinks he is the greatest filmmaker in the game and he isn't. He thinks his style is the most original but it isn't. I like his style but he has some stinkers too. just don't like when he tries to put down other people's work

[@blanchjoe1481]

Thank you for sharing this. What has been called "The Final Duel Theme" by Ennio Morricone created for A Fistful Of Dollars can be inferred as a loose adaptation upon the Dimitri Tiomkin piece for the film "Rio Bravo", which was itself loosely based upon the traditional bugle call used by the Mexican Army during its siege of the Alamo called he El Degüello, meaning No Quarter will be given. A fitting theme for both scenes in both films. Kurosawa would have been thrilled to have had this quality of music applied to this film, but with all of his films, the studios allowed him minuscule budgets by what Leone had access to, and that a beggars pittance compared to Hollywood budgets. While "Fistful Of Dollars" was based upon "Yojimbo", it self was loosely based upon Dashiell Hammett's novel "Red Harvest", and even more it is derived from Carlo Goldoni's eighteenth-century play "Servant of Two Masters". So for both screenplay and music, it is art standing on the shoulders of other artists. If you are curious, go play all three scores back to back and you can find the connections.

[@Professicchio]

Fistful was made on a much tighter budget than Yojimbo ($200.000 against almost $700.000). At the time nobody yet believed in the possibility of European-made Westerns being world-wide smash hits, Leone had only directed one sword-and-sandal at that point, Eastwood had never been seen in anything more than tiny roles on the big screen, while Kurosawa and Mifune were already worldwide legends with several international prizes under their belts. Leone wanted originally to legally obtain the rights to remake Yojimbo but nobody wanted to pay the extra burden and most believed it was unlikely the movie would be seen outside Italy anyway, never mind Japan, so production went ahead with no copyrights clearance. As it turned out Fistful was indeed a smash-hit worldwide and inevitably it reached Kurosawa's attention, who naturally sued. The tragedy is that (as told by Kurosawa himself) he made more profit from the earning rights he won for the release of Fistful in Japan than the whole worldwide distribution of Yojimbo which, sadly, was kind of a flop few years back (earning at least 7 times less than Fistful). Leone is a brilliant director but I still think Yojimbo is the better of the two movies not just for budget shown but also storytelling and characters' depth.

[@Kncperseus]

The fight scene felt lame and chaotic. Some of the henchmen were fleeing, none seem prepared. It's pretty much how fights happen in real life. Awesome!