Spaghetti West

The American Western, the tales of heroes and bravery, of men with guns dispensing justice and getting the beautiful little lady. These films influenced post-war Akira Kurasawa, who conseved the Japanese Western, not set in the lawless west but the territorial days of Edo era Japan, where heroes' guns morphed into the more blatent swords.

Kurasawa's work, which delved into developing heroes into rounded people, rather then 2D figures that fit pefectly on posters. This persanalization of the hero, creating relatable characters, along with brillant story lines, spurred the Italians into creating the Spaghetti West.

The Story of Yojimbo started the spigetti west. It was remade semi-legally into the first Spegitti Western, ironicly symbolicly staring an American Cowboy. A further post of A Fistful of Dollars is needed to explain the similarites and brilliantness of these two films.