The Ambush
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshiro Mifune
Shintaro Katsu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Ruriko Asaoka
Yujiro Ishihara
Film Details
Technical Specs

Synopsis
Yojimbo, a masterless samurai, is hired for a mysterious task at the Sanshu Pass. On his way there, he rescues Okuni, a beautiful but ill-treated woman. Because of the danger of his mission, he leaves her at an inn on the Mikuni Pass in Shinshu, now a path for fugitives from the law. Gentetsu, a doctor living in a barn behind the inn, is secretly the head of a Shogunate band planning to attack a clan of samurai carrying gold through the pass. Yojimbo sides with the samurai and in a fierce fight kills every man in the Shogunate band.

Director

Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast

Toshiro Mifune
Shintaro Katsu
Kinnosuke Nakamura
Ruriko Asaoka
Yujiro Ishihara
Mika Kitagawa
Ichiro Arishima
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Ryunosuke Yamazaki
Jotaro Togami
Chusha Ichikawa
Heima Ibuki
Crew

Film Details
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Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Released in Japan in April 1970 as Machi-buse. Subtitle: Incident at Blood Pass.

Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter December 18, 1970
Released in United States Winter December 18, 1970