Witty, darkly fun, and oh-so-Wild West, Yojimbo is peak Kurosawa. The humor, brutal swordplay, and the "You're not such a bad guy for a gruff bounty hunter" trope make this a riveting watch.

Self-indulgently violent grittiness, but just lucid enough to avoid falling onto the phylum of John Wick and Sin City, this was so much fun. With it's feverish pacing and raw depictions of a amateur protagonist who has the capacity to be dangerous but struggles to actualize it, it's a distant urban cousin of Dhanush's Asuran. Beautifully shot, neon-soaked, and the some of the most refreshing hyper-violence I've seen in a while, it's main fault is it's milquetoast take on the…