Director Akira Kurosawa and star Toshiro Mifune did some of their finest work together with this pair of films from the early 1960s, and the Criterion Collection has now released them in sparkling 4K ...

Clint Eastwood's Fistful of Dollars was the breakthrough success that turned him into a star, but it was actually sued for ...

Made just one year later, Sanjuro matches Yojimbo’s storytelling dexterity yet adds layers of world-weary pragmatism that brings the two films to a thrilling and unforgettable conclusion.

The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno.

That movie was followed by “Seven Samurai ... was cemented by two Kurosawa films from the following decade: “Yojimbo” (1961) and “Sanjuro (1962). Now, having given “Seven Samurai ...