You should also check out Seven Samurai - the film is mirrored in The Magnificent Seven. Interestingly Kurosawa was highly influenced by John Ford and Westerns of the 1940s.
You have a Japanese director, influenced by US Westerns, who then inspires Italian directors (spaghetti Westerns), who then relaunch and reinvigorate the Western.
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elmosbeendrinking, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 9:31,
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