Cowboys and Samurai: A Tale of Two Heroes
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- This is just a very basic rundown of the similarities and connections between Western and Samurai films.
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Kurosawa was a filthy Westaboo. I would pay good money for a pic of him sleeping with his Orson Welles body pillow
Filthy Westaboo bro I can’t-
Joke's on you he's sleeping with a *John Ford* body pillow.
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@@brianquint6126 it is quite literally the most liked comment here that I have seen and is also pinned what
Orson body pillow would probably be the same size as its weeb counterpart, the totoro body pillow.
Love Japanese history.
Love Old West history.
Love Jidaigeki.
Love Westerns.
Simple as.
Based
Based
Love Ghost of Tsushima.
Love Red Dead Redemption.
@@harshvardhanshekhawat5274 Jetstream sam approves
Iaido and quick draw. Same art, different weapon.
Jetstream Sam manages to do both
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And that's why Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo are my two favorite anime.
I love the spaceship/ship crew "western"/Odyssey series, where a band of outlaws just go on adventures with their ship, like Firefly, The Expanse, Cowboy Bepop, Eureka 7, Black Lagoon, Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS, and sort of Ergo Proxy or Astra Lost in Space
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter Trigun
@@BananaPhoPhilly Thanks, hadn't heard of that, still somewhat new to anime.
Watched a few episodes and it's amazing
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter if you’re still looking for that same kind of space-roving western style, try Outlaw Star
@@tomdrawsstuffs6092 always, thank you
A weeaboo is defined as a non-Japanese person who is completely obsessed with traditional Japanese culture. The extreme opposite: A westaboo. Defined as a Japanese person who is obsessed with all things Western.
@DorkyAnimator73 these don’t exist
@@enzocarneiro6748 the hell they don't. You've never been to japan
John Wayne a western director inspired Akita Kurosawa who was a samurai director, who later inspored Leone's western films. History sure knows how to repeat itself
John Wayne hated Spaghetti Westerns. Btw that's why we never got to see Clint Eastwood and John Wayne together on the movie screen.
John Ford*
@@swapnilrana2206 oh that makes much more sense
Well ok, Kurosawa got inspired. But Leone straight up copied some movies.
I lately watched Yojimbo and a Fistful of Dollars back to back and it was crazy. The exact same timeline, a lot of pretty much identic dialogs, even the extras standig around, the love story and everything.
@@DaNr1to2 Yojimbo isn't original either. It's based of american novel "Red harvest" but with Japanese twist.
There is a subculture in Japan of Western fans that cosplay as cowboys. I've also seen a section of gearheads that like 60's US muscle cars over JDM there too. The influence both nations had on each other post-war is something else.
It's fascinating really, I bet they think if they watch enough Simpsons they can speak perfect English.
Haha yeah, the japanese with the muscle and lowrider meets and the americans with the jdm meets is such a cool thing to see
@@martintotev4508 it would make for a pretty good story, wouldn’t it? a modern day retelling of these samurai and cowboy movies featuring a weeb American and westaboo Japanese
the kind of relationship that Japan and United States is truly something special.
Just so we're clear, Yojimbo was primarily written as a Japanese version of the book Red Harvest, an American novel.
And so, so good, too.
Yojimbo also contains elements of the Glass Key and the Dain Curse, also by Hammet.
I rather liked this video because, after years of having a lot of the people around me insist that Westerns are just retellings of Samurai stories, it was nice to see the more cyclical nature of all of this actually discussed.
The Detective Noir Novel about a Mine Strike?
Red Dead Redemption 2 and Ghost of Tsushima in videogames
Cowboy Bebop and Samurai X in anime
Seven Samurai and The Good, the Bad, And The Ugly for movies.
Trigun and samurai champloo work too
I've heard people talk about how George Lucas "totally ripped off" The Hidden Fortress and after finally watching The Hidden Fortress, I find this comparison to be greatly exaggerated honestly. Like there's a few similar elements but people calling Star Wars a wholesale ripoff are just wrong
Lucas ripped off a lot of things, but the end result was pretty amazing, so we let it pass.
@@wormfood83 that's my thing, I wouldn't even call it Lucas ripping off anything. He took a few basic plot points from The Hidden Fortress and made a pretty distinctly different movie out of it. It reminds me of how people accused Tarantino of copying Ringo Lam's movie City On Fire to make Reservoir Dogs. Lam himself eventually came out and said that he admired Tarantino's movie a lot because he took a small component of City On Fire and made a whole other movie out of it and that takes a lot of talent.
@@wormfood83 bro its a heros journey how can you rip off a plot structure
Star wars took quite a bit of influence from Dune, to the point of Herbert making subtle, tongue-in-cheek jabs at Lucas in his later works. The plot of Revenge of The Sith is very similar to what happens in Dune: Messiah. Darth Vader was clearly inspired by the downfall of Paul Atreides
@@Leitis_Fella but you act like it wasn't done before. We don't care about the complete originality behind the plot but the execution. Everyone gets slight inspiration/influence from somewhere but not everyone can make a star wars. Old republic is top tier
Because of the symbiotic relationship between American and Japanese films, I propose Owen Wilson Plays Shinji in the live action evangelion remake
“Serving as an allegory… for the state of California.” You, my friend, have just earned a sub from me. Good job.
Holy shit, I had no idea a movie like Red Sun existed. That's going right to the top of my need-to-watch list. Thanks dude!
I only new about it because of Metal Gear Rising referencing it.
Bro that kinda hit me good as a filipino
Spanish are good people they don't steal hahaha good one
As a Filipino i agree
As a Filipino I also concur
As a Pilipino, yes.
@@laricsiloven1423 AS A PINOY AKO AY SUMASANGAYON
As a Mexican I agree
I love that this is a perfect balance between legit video essay and total shitpost. Great video👌
always love seeing high plains drifter getting some recognition, such a great western with a gothic, dark humour, and supernatural twist.
I love that people in Japan see cowboys as the Western equivalent of samurai, and there is a subculture In Japan that's enthusiastic about the wild west just like people in the US are enthusiastic about samurai.
I love this! Never felt drawn to samurai aesthetic but I do tip my hat to what they stood for. Nothing but respect from this cowpoke.
this video was awesome. always loved cowboy and samurai movies and its crazy how related they are. Love how you mention star wars because it has both Cowboy and samurai architypes
This is an excellent video. I'm a member of a film club and I chose this as my theme because I had loosely heard the comparison in the past. This video will give us great background on themes to look out for as we view our movies.
Amazing analysis, didn't know any of this, esp the body pillow part
Red Dead Music is nice thx
Hey, what’s the name of the ost used?
Can you please at least tell me which red dead game this is from? I've been looking all over. WHAT SONG IS THIS!?!?
YOU MEAN TO TELL ME WAKALIWOOD DIDNT PIONEER THE VIDEO JOCKEY?!
I pioneered it! What are we youtubers if not vidéo jockeys?
The Kino Corner nah fam if folks are commentating within live audiences I have a new calling in life.
The Red Sun! So that was its name. I remembered watching it as a wee lad with my dad and loving it so much. Thanks for reminding me of the name.
The masculine urge to walk away from home and never look back.
"Demilitarized japan" last I checked, the japanese military disbanded in shame at least partially of it's own accord.
I also remember a famous author killing himself in protest to it.
Well yeah but they could have created a new conventional military force like any other country, but because of influence from the US, they didn't.
I don't understand why they didn't abandon it earlier, it would have been in theirs and the US's interest to counter a rising China. It's not like they are hugely ashamed of their past, like the Germans.
But I guess the US was afraid of them becoming a competitor until now. Also they should have gotten nuclear weapons before China got so powerful, it would have been a great power balance, but now is a very dangerous idea.
@@jaredouimette1 Yukio Mishima. What a fascinating, crazy guy.
I love that in Afro Samurai, the hero is a samurai and the villain is a cowboy
Should also be noted how well the drifter cowboy and wandering Ronin mesh as archetypes given their historical contexts. Same displacement of people, mass cultural shifts, bands of out of work men turned outlaw and bounty hunter abandoned by de-mobilisation and devastation, etc. resulting from the end of the Civil war is an almost perfect parallel to the changes Japan underwent following the Boshin war or alternatively the fallout following the battle of Sekigahara and the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu like in Harakiri.
I feel like Superhero-movies are kind of the modern incarnation of this trope, just you know ... shittier.
that's basically the thesis statement behind Logan.
Also. Yojimbo was inspired by an American novel. Red Harvest. By Dashiell Hammet, noted progenitor of the hard boiled detective genre. So basically, American 30s crime novel, Japanese samurai flick, and Italian cowboy western.
Wait.. Hammet wrote that? Dang I'm gonna have to give that a read then.
Loved the video but your British flag near the end was the Confederate Stars and Bars not the Union Jack.
Splitting hairs, but that was the biggest laugh of my morning.
So basically Mandalorian & Boba Fett (Samurai Cowboy)
Mandalorian is Lone Wolf and Cub. Straight up ripoff.
Great stuff man, keep up the insightful videos! God bless you!
Luv guns
Luv katanas
Luv stoicism
Luv samurai
Luv cowboys
Simple as
Excellent video. Thanks for making it.
I love that song by ween, and I think this video changed my understanding about the meaning of the song.
The sprinkled in dry humor was immaculate
props for the clip choice of this whole thing.
I have to thank you for that Neil Breen cameo
Yojimbo itself is based on a Dashell Hammett novel, The Glass Key
Do not look up the second thing Clint Eastwood does after riding into town in High Plains Drifter (1973).
Now We need a movie where a samurai time traveled to wild west America and come back to Japan looking like Clint Eastwood
Yeah! Great video, dude.. that's how you earn my sub!
Thanks for shouting out Ghost Dog, too - one of my all time favourite films and almost nobody knows about it lol
Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the western's that John Ford directed and when the war was over he wanted to direct his own westerns.
Jetstream sam has joined the chat
Really well-done. Thank you.
No mention of Kill Bill?
that last line was powerful. reminds me of the truth telling cinema possesses.
9:58... Baggy pants, that particular sideways movement... OMG, Kurosawa invented the original U Can't Touch This! :O
Sometimes they marry perfectly like Red Sun with Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune, I am going to mention Capucine and Ursala Andress because the perfect cowboy samurai movie needs the perfect eye candy.
okay but the red sun movie man it's like the craziest yet coolest idea ever, samurais and cowboys togheter but this time is not overwatch it's a proper movie it's like wtf man!!!
Did you know that Yojimbo was a retelling of an American gangster novel, The Hard Way? Western by way of Eastern by way of Sam Spade. Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis is also based on the novel, but everyone thinks it's ripping off Fist Full of Dollars. Fascinating
What's the song you used during the conclusion? Great video.
"and its director was british"
that's the second time i laughed out loud watching this video
I love it! I will try to watch these movies
BG Kumbi caught me so off guard lmaoo
Uh… anybody gonna talk about the confederate flag being the British lol, look I know we both drink a lot of tea, eat biscuits, and talk in funny accents but… (the slow realization is setting in), naw go ahead I guess.
Southerners have higher testosterone than the English and better teeth too.
@@h.b.hatecraft953 that’s because we’re scots
@@Alfred_Leonhart Truth!....
I fucking love it when cowboys and samurai get mixed up in stories. It's like you have one really cool thing and add another really cool thing to it. You got double the amount of cool now.
Did you know they existed at the same time in mid 19 century
5:37 kumbi was a nice surprise
What's the difference between an homage and a ripoff? The former can stand on it's own while respecting its inspiration, while the latter merely makes the viewer want to go watch its "inspiration".
08:36. What about DeNiro's "Ronin?" "Six String Samurai?" And "Cowboy Bebop," "Trigun," and "Outlaw Star?"
09:57. Not a big deal, most Spaghetti Westerns were filmed in Spain.
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett is the original Yojimbo
you run a mighty good channel
Old westerns influenced samurai films which in turn influenced later western films. It's a fun cycle
What group of people ran these hollywood studios?
hey I recognize that background music lol, I’m surprised music from Paris, Texas is royalty free
Memories broken
That part with McDonald’s in Moscow hit different now
What's the song at the beginning?
Logan a superhero film that embodies the samurai/western spirit
and jackman's final/best performance as the character
Logan still has Katana.
Laura references a western she watched.
I fucking love it.
What's the movie for the closing shot of the video?
I'm glad that more and more people start to realize that. And tell others about it on yt or by other means in cybernetic system of information flow. I always enlighten about this since the 1990s. Probably needed to make videos on the Internet long time ago. But it's how it is. Whatever happens, happens. Well done video.
Westerns were also inspired by the classic pulp books. Reading a Conan story plays out a lot like a Western.
Just now I noticed how Metal Gear Rising is the perfect embodiment of this genre and Jetstream Sam fits perfectly the stranger archetype (while also being... Brazilian)
Also, Red Sun is the name they used for Sundowner's theme
Great minds think alike
hey hey hey what's up
ngl, I was expecting a "...like Shrek" at the end there...
It’s not stealing if you conquer
Was not expecting bg kumbi lol
What’s the western song he’s playing
did they actually send that horse tumbling down the sand dune for that shot
the ending was more sudden than my dogs death
I don't know if I'm missing the joke, but why is the Union Jack replaced with the Confederate flag at 9:57 💀 lmao
Well, both kind of died out due to modernization and civilization. Ok, some still exist but it's mostly for example cowboys who adapted post 19 century. That being said they both had their heyday but lost to the changing world in which law and order prevail!!! Btw a perfect example is the Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise and Tom Selleck's Mini Tv series Marty Walsh last of the cowboys!!!
What's the film at 04:23?
I always saw “High Plains Drifter” as more of a direct parallel to Yojimbo, but very fair analysis
yo what movie is it on 0:31 ???
So that’s why the Japanese/Arizonan connection is so strong
Fastest Gun in the West x Quickest Sword in the East.
That last line was beautiful, stories that have universal appeal and lessons are timeless.
But for some fucking reason every western movie and series now has to "reflect the current state of the world", no wonder they all flop so hard. Who the fuck keeps making them? Oh right, California, Hell on earth.
When you said the director of the Red Sun was British at 9:55, I think you showed a Confederate flag, not the British flag FYI.
I heard there's a man that fears both
Man Kurosawa really loved Russian literature and Ford films.
Really great video essay, taking on topics little talked about, but very pertinent to modern cinema. It does pose the question, how many great films 'borrow' their stories and ideas from little-known pieces that came before it? How many are truly original?
quick side note: why was the British director represented by a republican flag?
I'm a bit confused by the Confederate flag for the UK. I guess it's supposed to be a joke, but what's the joke? That it's the wrong flag?
2:54 Well this part aged well, lol
What's with the Confederate flag for the Union Jack?
"Isn't imitation the highest form of flattery? maybe that's why Disney loves to remake its own films" Hahah that's great, you clever man
9:57 ... really? That made me double take, man. Funny guy ...
Cool.
The Confederate flag shown is not British. You may be confused with the Union Jack Flag