Western and Samurai

[Saito]

Have you noticed that some westerns have the same plot lines as Akira Kurosawa films. For example: Yojimbo to A Fistful of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven to Seven Samurai. Are there any others?

[AlexM]

Have you noticed that some westerns have the same plot lines as Akira Kurosawa films. For example: Yojimbo to A Fistful of Dollars and The Magnificent Seven to Seven Samurai. Are there any others?

I hate to break this to you but the Kurosawa films WERE the basis of the Western remakes. The plot lines are similar because they have the same source material...

[Dervish]

There are others!

http://www.spookybug.com/origins/kurosawa.html

Star Wars too! :)

[Dervish]

http://boards.theforce.net/revenge_of_the_sith/b10331/5180415/p1

Another good resource. Sorry to double post, but I wasn't able to edit in time :(

[Saito]

I forgot all about Star Wars!

[Manuka]

And perhap you may notice a similarity in plot lines from Shakespeare in Kurosawa's films, because they were.

Throne of Blood - MacBeth
Ran - King Lear

[Munnin]

I hate to break this to you but the Kurosawa films WERE the basis of the Western remakes. The plot lines are similar because they have the same source material...

To complete the circle though; they make good westerns because Kurosawa was a great admirer of the american western and wrote them as his homage to the american western.

Great artist steal, poor ones borrow.

[AlexM]

To complete the circle though; they make good westerns because Kurosawa was a great admirer of the american western and wrote them as his homage to the american western.

Great artist steal, poor ones borrow.

Cool.

Thanks, didn't know that.

Although I'd like to point out that some of those remakes were done by an Italian and shot in Spain...