NR | 1h 45m | Adventure, Biography, Romance | 1956
There are rich correlations between two great genres: the American Western and the Japanese samurai (or chanbara) films. Consider the archetypal mysterious wanderer, an apex gunslinger in Westerns, who finds his mirror in the roving ronin, a masterless samurai often guided by a righteous moral code. Both serve as quiet, stoic agents of justice thrust into corrupt or chaotic worlds desperately in need of order.
