The relationship between samurai films and
Westerns goes back many years, thanks in large part to remakes of Akria Kurosawa films; his 1954 film
Seven Samurai was remade as the western
The Magnificent Seven in 1960, and the defining Sergio Leone/
Clint Eastwood movie
A Fistful of Dollars remade Kurosawa's
Yojimbo, without explicit credit given to Kurosawa.
Now there is a major western-to-samurai remake in development, and it is ...