The film is very directly based on Akira Kurosawas Yojimbo (1961) Kurosawa had already acknowledged that his samurai films we're in some ways a reworking of traditional Hollywood westerns, but this film is very very clear remake of his. Kurosawa wrote to Leone after seeing the Western and said "I like your film very much it's a very interesting film unfortunately it's my film not your film" they settled out of court with the Japanese director going on to earn more from this film then from any of his own releases.

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