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sukiyaki western - no joke


The funny thing is, I've been wanting to make a game or novel about this for some time now. The parallels between samurai movies and westerns is not only a source of historic cinematic greatness, it's heaps of fun. I look at the way Yojimbo was turned into Fist Full of Dollars, Seven Samurai into The Magnificent Seven... I wonder what happens when Takashi Miike of all people takes it in mind to drag some back. (synaesthesiaJP)
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  1. OtherMichael6/05/2007 12:28 AM

    Yes, but Yojimbo was a deliberate response to the Westernification of "7 Samurai" -- he made a Japanese Western.

    The oddity, is that the source material wasn't a western, but hard-boiled detective fiction: Dashiel Hammett's "Red Harvest."

    And then there's the "Last Man Standing" re-translation....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)
    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/7781/pages/RHarvest.html

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  2. bwana6/05/2007 12:35 AM

    Interesting! I'd known about Last Man Standing (a real mess of a film) being a re-translation of Yojimbo, but hadn't known about the Hammett connection. I love crime fiction, so I'll have to find that.

    Thanks!

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