Yojimbo

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In Japanese, a yojimbo (用心棒, yōjinbō^?) is a bodyguard or security person. Ronin and samurai with low salaries were sometimes hired as yojimbo. Often yojimbo were ronin hired by the Yakuza and used as executioners and assassins rather than as bodyguards.

Yojimbo may also refer to:

• Yojimbo (film), a 1961 jidaigeki film by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune (See similar Kaze no Yojimbo)
• Usagi Yojimbo ("Rabbit Bodyguard"), a comic book series created by Stan Sakai
• Yojimbo, a secret Aeon found in the video game Final Fantasy X. (See List of Final Fantasy X characters for more information.)
• Yojimbo (software), an information organizer for Mac OS X, by Bare Bones Software
• Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo, a 1970 film, directed by Kihachi Okamoto, starring Shintaro Katsu and Toshiro Mifune
• Kaze no Yojimbo, an animated television program, where the lead character is wanted by members of a small town as a bodyguard figure

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