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Yojimbo
- 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 rather used as executioners and assassins 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 is also the name of a secret aeon found in the video game Final Fantasy X.
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