A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a wealthy merchant who plans to bypass his son-in ...

This 2002 movie tells the poignant story of Iguchi Seibei, a widowed samurai mockingly nicknamed ... he’s hired by the townspeople to be its bodyguard, that is, the titular yojimbo.

Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo was remade just three years later, but it wasn't the first time his work had been reimagined in another genre.

and race against the clock in a non-stop concerto for bullets. Can the hitman's bodyguard carry through the most important mission in his career?