The grandeur of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa's legacy is reflected in countless careers, popular film franchises, and even a genre that was, directly or indirectly, inspired by his works. One such genre is the "spaghetti Western," which traditionally began in 1964 with Sergio Leone's *A Fistful of Dollars*, an obvious remake of Kurosawa's own "jidai geki" classic *Yojimbo*, released three years earlier and…






