Having been beaten up in the previous scene, we first discover two of the hero’s beaters from the previous scene now playing cards, just like in Yojimbo. To give you the picture (literally), here are some screenshots with a narrative of what takes place in The Glass Key: Most strikingly, the scene of Sanjuro’s torture and escape appears to be quite directly modelled after the film noir movie, so much so that some shots are almost identical. But, anyway, here’s what I’ve learnt from what I’ve got.įrom the three, I would say that it is the film that indeed seems to be the most straightforward source for Kurosawa. Not that those two should actually have anything to do with Yojimbo. Sadly, I couldn’t get a hold of the 1935 adaptation of The Glass Key or the 1930 movie Roadhouse Nights, which is a loose adaptation of Red Harvest. In any case, considering that it was the month of Yojimbo at our film club and everything, I decided to read the books and watch the film. As far as I can know, however, Kurosawa himself rather pointed towards the 1942 film noir adaptation of The Glass Key as the actual source that he used. American writer Dashiell Hammett’s novels The Glass Key (1931) and Red Harvest (1929) have often been cited as sources for Kurosawa’s Yojimbo.
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