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Which Kurosawa Akira film features a bodyguard as its central character?
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Kurosawa Akira
Kurosawa Akira, 1961.
The Kurosawa Akira film that features a bodyguard as its central character is Yojimbo (1961).
In this film, the protagonist—a wandering samurai named Sanjūrō, played by Mifune Toshirō—arrives in a village caught in a power struggle between two feuding crime families. He exploits the situation by getting hired as a bodyguard for both sides, intending to pit the clans against one another. The film's title, Yojimbo, translates to "The Bodyguard".12