Remakes of YOJIMBO:
A FISTFULL OF DOLLARS
LAST MAN STANDING
Remakes of THE SEVEN SAMURAI:
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN/RETURN OF THE SEVEN
GUNS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RIDE!
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (TV series)
Aren't you forgetting A Bug's Life and Battle Beyond the Stars which are also based on Seven Samurai?
Super perfundo on the early eve of your day
How many "Western/American remakes of Japanese samurai movies" are there?
shareStar Wars IV, A New Hope is adapted from or largely inspired by Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.
In The Hidden Fortress is told largely from the point of view of two greedy squabbling peasants, who discover a fortress where a princess is hiding out from the forces of an evil shogun. She is protected by a loyal general (played by Toshiro Mifune). The princess has thousands of pieces of gold, the treasury of her family, and her family's future depends on her ability to cross enemy territory with the gold.
In Star Wars, the two peasants became the two droids, the role of the general was split between Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, and the golden treasure became the plans for the Death Star. The Princess Yuki becomes the Princess Leia -- their personalities are very similar.
Usual Suspects was also inspired by Kurosawa's Rashomon.
shareWould people get it right.
They are all different versions of Red Harvest/The Glass Key
No Dashiell Hammett...
No Roadhouse Nights (1930)
No The Glass Key (1942)
No Yojimbo
No Fistfull of Dollars
No Last Man Standing
Both The Glass Key/Red Harvest are inspiration for Miller's Crossing (1990) as well.
It's Dashiell Hammett that started it all.
If you look back longer you'll probably find out that Red Harvest was basing off something else as well.
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