The founding spaghetti western is a remake of a samurai film

A Fistful of Dollars is a spaghetti western directed by Sergio Leone in 1964. This feature film is the first installment of the Dollars Trilogy and propelled Clint Eastwood to the forefront. It is actually a remake of the film Yojimbo, a chanbara directed in 1961 by Akira Kurosawa.