This Samurai character:
John Belushi on SNL
Is based on this Samurai character:
Toshirô Mifune in Sanjuro
But wait, there is more..
The masterless samurai Sanjuro appears in 2 of Akira Kirusawa’s films: Yojimbo and Sanjuro.
Kirusawa used the American genre of westerns for these films, but set them in feudal Japan.
Then Yojimbo was remade (into a western) by Sergio Leone as A Fistful of Dollars, starring an American “masterless samurai”, Clint Eastwood.
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