A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town. It is a credited remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, and was influenced heavily by the plot of A Fistful of Dollars (1964), which is nearly the same.
Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Directed by,
Walter Hill
Produced by,
Walter Hill
Arthur M. Sarkissian
Screenplay by,
Walter Hill
Ryuzo Kikushima (story)
Akira Kurosawa (story)
Based on Yojimbo by,
Akira Kurosawa
Starring,
Bruce Willis
Christopher Walken
Karina Lombard
Music by,
Ry Cooder
Distributed by,
New Line Cinema
Release dates,
September 20, 1996
Running time,
101 min.
Country,
United States
Language,
English
Spanish
Budget,
$67,000,000
Box office,
$47,267,001
302,885 admissions (France)