Akira Kurosawa

...start his own film production company. Heavily influenced by Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, the film casts Eastwood as a mysterious stranger who plays rival gang families against one another in a frontier town. Eastwood would return as "The Man with...

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...which frames his characters against a vast, harsh and rugged natural terrain. Ford has further influenced directors as diverse as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Peter Bogdanovich, Sergio...

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...to TV stardom. Eastwood had bigger plans, however, when he accepted the lead role in A Fistful Of Dollars, a Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's Dashiell Hammett-inspired samurai movie Yojimbo, shot in Spain and helmed by the largely...

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...Night fundraiser on April 30. The five-time Oscar-winner will join his predecessors, including Mike Leigh, Akira Kurosawa, Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, Robert Altman, and Clint Eastwood, reports Contactmusic. Interestingly, the 69-year-old...

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...a winery near the city, will be presented with the founder's directing award at a bash on 30 April. He joins impressive company; previous winners include Mike Leigh, Akira Kurosawa, Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, Robert Altman and Clint Eastwood.

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...it the same way." Full circle: He is in debt to the great director Akira Kurosawa because Kurosawa made "Yojimbo," upon which "A Fistful of Dollars" was based -- or, rather, from which "A Fistful of Dollars" was stolen. With his trademark...

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...by Sergio Leone: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966 ) A Fistful of Dollars is an unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1961 film Yojimbo '' starring Toshiro Mifune. Although it was not Leone's intention, the three movies came to be...

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...performance by Quentin Tarantino. It's got snatches of "Henry the Sixth," large doses of Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and bits and pieces drawn from Peckinpah's, Leone's and Clint Eastwood's classic westerns. Once you get past the question of why...

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...wearing his arms inside his kimono, leaving the sleeves empty. Prior to signing on to Fistful, Eastwood had seen Kurosawa's film and was impressed by the character. During filming, he did not emulate Mifune's performance beyond what...

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