Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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No food, no water, but his two swords are all he really needs. The extremely violent-capable drifter with a hidden heart-of-gold, which really gets him into trouble.

The late Toshiro Mifune was made for this role in Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo', from 1961. Clint Eastwood played the same role as a western gunslinger in one of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns ('For a Fistful of Dollars'?), and Bruce Willis played the role again in 'Last Man Standing'.

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