played by Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo
Before there was the man with no name, there was Sanjuro, Akira Kurosawa’s roaming ronin. Given that he predates Clint Eastwood’s cigarillo-chewing outlaw and that Fistful of Dollars is an obvious remake of Yojimbo, he just may be the ultimate in antiheroes.
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