Two Heads

Kambei was the first to see the samurai arrive.

Toshiru Mifune as the nameless samurai in Akira Kurosawa’s Yoimbo. Credit: Toho.

Kambei was the first to see the samurai arrive. He was searching for a coin he’d lost in his father’s field and saw the samurai cross the old bridge over the river and travel on the road to town. He ran to tell his father and mother, and his father ran to tell their neighbou…