Just wondering because i was thinking the other day about how Kurosawa films have been remade multiple times.

Yojimbo westernized as italian spaghetti western A fistful of Dollars, and also remade as the 1996 gangster bruce willlis film last man standing.

The Seven Samurai remade as the magnificent seven.

Sanshiro Sugata remade a bunch of times.

Hidden Fortress remade as The Last Princess.

An anime series loosely based on the Seven samurai called Samurai 7.

Another adaption of Seven Samurai is rumored by imdb fr 2011. That cannot be right though, probably a year or two away.

Who could forget the remake that almost happened the star wars treatment and first draft as ripoffs of Hidden Fortress.

I guess it is fitting when Kurosawa himself claimed he was inspired by John Ford. But none of Kurosawa films i have seen are really ripoffs of John Ford films as far as i can see except maybe by influence and composition behind the camera.