Watch Yojimbo
Don't google it, or look up the spoilers on Wikipedia or IMDB.
Just watch it. Tonight. I know you have a netflix account. Or access to someone's online account. It's a watch instantly. You've probably seen, or at least heard about, A Fistful of Dollars. The Clint Eastwood movie that is often accredited with rise in popularity of "Spaghetti Westerns". Or Maybe you've seen the really good Bruce Willis movie Last Man Standing, which is based on A Fistful of Dollars. Well Yojimbo was the predecessor to them all. If your looking for good martial arts there are many movies with subtitles exponentially better than this one. But this is arguably the best movie I know of to have come out of Japan during that era in terms of plot and characters. Watch it. Now.
