Re: Getting nailed from Way Far Away (tm)

Other way around for Kurosawa : 

Seven Samurai (1954) vs. The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Yojimbo (1961) vs. Fistfull of Dollars (1964)

etc.

> ------------ Original Message -----------
> From: David Brewer <david@brewer.to>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 23:29:15 +0100
> 
> Ryan Gill wrote:
> 
> > Similar thing happened in Ran, though I don't know if
> > Kurosawa was reading Confederate exploits or not.
> 
> FWIW, not Ran but Kagemusha. Kurosawa was very influenced by
> American films, especially Westerns, so perhaps he might have
> heard this story.
>