Jim wrote:
"It's not a direct adaptation the sense that, say, THE
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN is of SEVEN SAMURAI, or A FISTFUL OF
DOLLARS and LAST MAN STANDING are of YOJIMBO."
Or Blind Fury is of Zatoichi Challenged or The Outrage, which
I've never seen (but would like to), is of Rashomon.
A bit of trivia -- in Yojimbo, Kurosawa has his ronin
(anti-)hero imitate a knife trick of James Coburn's in Mag
Seven, the remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. It goes around
and around.
Mark
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