Yōjinbō / Yojimbo / Yojimbo the Bodyguard (Bac Ninh Miniatures) (Ronin)

 


Hello friends!

Another Bac Ninh Miniatures samurai today!
Sculpt by Stavros Zouliatis 

Yojimbo is a 1961 Japanese samurai movie co-written, produced, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. In the movie, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords vie for supremacy.
The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.

In 1860, during the final years of the Edo period, a rōnin wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside. Coming to a fork in the road, he chooses which path to take at random by thowing a branch onto the ground and following the path that it points towards.

        While stopping at a farmhouse for water, the rōnin overhears an elderly couple lamenting that their only son, not wanting to waste his life as a farmer, has run off to join the "gamblers" who have descended on a nearby town overrun with criminals and divided between two rival yakuza bosses...








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  1. Great stuff Michal, another Kurosawa classic!

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  2. Kolejna dobra praca. Zadziwia mnie jak płynnie skaczesz między tematami i klimatami. Ale fajnei bo dzieki temu mogę podejrzeć więcej ciekawych modeli :)

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    1. Dziękuję bardzo :)
      Tak, różnorodność tematów mam rozgrzebanych i powoli maluję:)

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  3. Świetne malowanie i detale ubrania!

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  4. This is such a great series of posts, Michal. I have little knowledge of this period (or the films based upon it) and always enjoy both your write-ups and paint-jobs.

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    1. Thank you :)
      The Edo period is very interesting.
      After centuries of samurai wars, there was peace, economic growth, modernization of the country and, on the other hand, hundreds and thousands of unemployed samurai.

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  5. Another great looking samurai celebrity character, Michal! Perfect likeness.

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  6. Wonderful work once again Michal, your Samurai collection must be quite large by now?!

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    1. Thank you so much :)
      Large.. Yes, but much more still waiting for painting (shame!)

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  7. Doskonałe naturalne kolory wysy ci Michał. Piękny model.
    Pozdr
    Tomasz

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  8. That's fantastic. I'm a huge fan of the movie, so I'm giving you extra points for the subject! :D

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  9. Excellent work creating texture on the mini's clothing!

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  10. Dawno mnie tu nie było, więc pojawi się ode mnie kilka komentarzy. Ten post widzę jako pierwszy. Świetnie wyszedł Tobie ten samuraj. Przez chwilę nawet myślałem przez chwilę, że hakama zrobiłeś w tartan. A tak mistrzowskie cieniowanie. Film muszę sobie przy okazji przypomnieć, bo kto nie lubi filmów tego utalentowanego reżysera ;)

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