The main character, Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), is a ronin - a samurai with no master. Regarding A Fistful of Dollars, Kurosawa has always maintained that he liked that treatment of his story. More recently, Walter Hill took a crack at it with the ill-advised Last Man Standing.
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Fittingly, a mere three years later, Yojimbo was remade for more widespread Western consumption by Sergio Leone as A Fistful of Dollars, the movie that introduced the world to the "Spaghetti Western" and made Clint Eastwood into a star. From the empty, windswept street stretching the length of town to the arrival of the stoic stranger, images familiar to viewers of '40s and '50s Westerns abound. The movie was conceived and designed as an homage to that most American of films - the Western. There's a sense of symmetry surrounding the development of Yojimbo. studios, as can be seen by the number of Hollywood re-makes of Kurosawa's films. He never made a film in America, but his properties were coveted by the major U.S. By the time Yojimbo was released, Kurosawa was a well-known name around the world. Over the span of eleven years, he crafted more than a half-dozen memorable motion pictures, beginning with Rashomon and including such classics as The Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress. Yojimbo was made at the end of Kurosawa's most fruitful period of movie-making. Many of his movies can rightfully be termed adventure films - an arena in which few "serious" directors dabble. Kurosawa's trademark was to blend artistry with action. One of the reasons for this is that Kurosawa was heavily influenced by Hollywood - as can be seen in many of his best-known pictures - and this made his features more accessible than those of, for example, Ingmar Bergman.
releases for their movies, Akira Kurosawa can arguably boast the highest number of viewers.
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