Yojimbo
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- In Japanese, Yojimbo (用心棒; Yōjinbō) is a bodyguard, security person or sometimes assassin. 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 bodyguards.
- Yojimbo is also a 1961 action film by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune.
- Usagi Yojimbo ("Rabbit Bodyguard") is a comic book character created by Stan Sakai.
- Yojimbo (Final Fantasy) is the name of a secret aeon found in the video game Final Fantasy X.
- Yojimbo is an information organizer for Mac OS X, by Bare Bones Software.
- Yojimbo is also the obscure moniker associated with Southern figure C. Rutledge Wilson.
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