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Dec 3, 2010 · The Warrior's Way: Directed by Sngmoo Lee. With Jang Dong-gun, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston. A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.
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Mar 4, 2024 · Martial arts Westerns can examine racial stereotyping and cultural acceptance through the lens of action-packed stories. For whatever reason, the Western genre has always gone hand in hand with martial arts. Some of the greatest martial arts movie stars of all time have made films in the Wild West, including Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
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- The Magnificent Seven and Seven Samurai. The most classic example of the cross-cultural dialogue between samurai movies and westerns is the legacy Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai left on American cinema.
- A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo. Another Kurosawa classic, Yojimbo tells the epic story of a mysterious, nameless ronin in the waning years of the Edo period (19th century).
- Requiem for a Gringo and Harakiri. Harakiri takes place at the beginning of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate had just come to power and Japan was finally free of an extended period of civil war.
- Blindman and Adventures of Zatoichi. In Adventures of Zatoichi, a humble, blind masseur (not a ronin!) travels across Japan during the late Edo period, giving massages and acupuncture treatments in exchange for money to fund his gambling addiction.
Jan 22, 2022 · Several hundred years after the Battle of Dannoura, the Genji and Heike clans face off again in a poor mountain town with a buried treasure legend. A revolve...
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- “The Magnificent Seven” (1960) and “Seven Samurai” (1954) Kurosawa’s landmark film, “Seven Samurai,” was highly influential on modern action cinema, but its most direct descendant was John Sturges’ “The Magnificent Seven,” starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach.
- “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964) and “Yojimbo” (1961) Another Kurosawa remake, “Yojimbo” is about a mysterious, quiet and lone ronin who wanders into a small town and fights to end the warring between two rival gangs.
- “Blindman” (1971) and “Adventures of Zatoichi” (1964) Zatoichi is one of Japan’s longest running samurai characters — a blind warrior originally played by actor Shintaro Katsu — who appeared in a total of 26 films and a subsequent TV series.
- “Unforgiven” (1992) In 1992, Clint Eastwood deconstructed the genre that made him famous with “Unforgiven,” a Western about a gunslinger forced to face his murderous past.
List of the best western movies about samurai according to visitors: Red Sun, The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, No Name on the Bullet, Winchester '73, Tombstone, True Grit, Dead Man. In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that ...
Westerns and Samurai Cinema (Jidaigeki or Chambara films) are both iconic film genres with iconic film heroes, and over the years, they have had an odd relat...
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