Yojimbo

...Westerns. " The film took a cockeyed approach to the myths of the American West, balancing sardonic humor and cranked-up violence with hints of outsized emotion that would grew more pronounced with subsequent films. The film was an...

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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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...see www.threedollarbillcinema.org. Metro Classics continues its "Adaptations" film series with two Wednesday-night screenings of Sergio Leone's "Yojimbo" remake, "A Fistful of Dollars." Clint Eastwood stars, Ennio Morricone scored,...

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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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...movies have re-told the samurai movie in a Western context. Italian director Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and Walter Hill's Last Man Standing '' are both remakes of ''Yojimbo. ''Clint Eastwood's "man with no name character" was modeled...

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...at when asked his name). In 1964 , Yojimbo was remade as A Fistful of Dollars, a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first appearance as the Man with No Name. Leone and his production company...

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...but engrossingly morbid, violent film." He went on to praise Eastwood's depiction of a half gangster half cowboy, and noted the plethora of violent spectacles as another distinction in the film. A Fistful of Dollars, although not the first...

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...No Name. A Fistful of Dollars was directly adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo ''. It was the subject of a successful lawsuit by ''Yojimbo's producers. The film's protagonist, a gruff, unconventional ronin played by Toshiro Mifune, bears a...

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