Unforgiven- The Samurai version

[Harley Starr]

Actor Ken Watanabe, from Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, plays the lead role.


http://collider.com/unforgiven-remake-japan-ken-watanabe/


Despite our cultural differences, the gunslinger and the ronin samurai share something in common.

[Mean Bob Mean]

Actor Ken Watanabe, from Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, plays the lead role.


http://collider.com/unforgiven-remake-japan-ken-watanabe/


Despite our cultural differences, the gunslinger and the ronin samurai share something in common.

Worked for the west when we ripped off Seven Samurai and Yojimbo!

[Harley Starr]

Even Kurosawa said he liked The Magnificent Seven. I'm certainly looking forward to this movie.

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[The Elderly Kid]

Worked for the west when we ripped off Seven Samurai and Yojimbo!

And Yojimbo itself was based on Dashiell Hammett's novel "Red Harvest," with a few scenes from "The Glass Key" thrown in. Kurosawa and his co-writer were big Hammett fans and freely admitted the influence. The fact is, good action-adventure plots are almost invariably adaptable to samurai, western, fantasy and sci-fi and even gangster flicks. There are only so many plots and most were used up by Homer's time.

[Mean Bob Mean]

And Yojimbo itself was based on Dashiell Hammett's novel "Red Harvest," with a few scenes from "The Glass Key" thrown in. Kurosawa and his co-writer were big Hammett fans and freely admitted the influence. The fact is, good action-adventure plots are almost invariably adaptable to samurai, western, fantasy and sci-fi and even gangster flicks. There are only so many plots and most were used up by Homer's time.

Very nicely put and quite true.

[Mogorilla]

Amen to the Homer reference.   I do recall seeing several movies where a group of heroes (or Professionals) were assembled to help recover a wife that had been kidnapped.