Remakes of films by Akira Kurosawa
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Note: This list includes full remakes only; it does not include films whose narratives have been loosely inspired by the basic plot of one or more of the director's films – as A Bug's Life (1998) references both Seven Samurai (1954) and its Hollywood remake The Magnificent Seven (1960) – nor movies that adopt or parody individual plot elements or characters from a Kurosawa film without adapting the entire film, as Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ("Star Wars", 1977) did with The Hidden Fortress (1958).
The information below is derived from the Akira Kurosawa IMDB page[1][better source needed] and Stuart Galbraith IV's filmography of the director.[2]
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| Year | Original title of remake | English title | Director | Remake of... | Country of origin | Kurosawa credited? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Sugata Sanshiro | Sanshiro Sugata | Shigeo Tanaka | Sanshiro Sugata | Japan | Yes |
| 1960 | The Magnificent Seven | — | John Sturges | Seven Samurai | USA | No |
| Rashomon (Television)[note 1] | — | Sidney Lumet | Rashomon | USA | Yes | |
| 1964 | Per un pugno di dollari | A Fistful of Dollars | Sergio Leone | Yojimbo (unauthorized)[note 2] | Italy-Spain-West Germany | No |
| The Outrage | — | Martin Ritt | Rashomon | USA | Yes | |
| 1965 | Sugata Sanshiro | Sanshiro Sugata | Seiichiro Uchikawa | Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata II |
Japan | Yes[note 3] |
| 1968 | Xue cheng | The Last Day of Hsianyang aka, The Last Days of Hsin Yang aka, They Died For Their Princess |
Fu Di Lin | The Hidden Fortress | Taiwan – Hong Kong | Yes |
| 1973 | Nora Inu | Stray Dog | Azuma Morisaki | Stray Dog | Japan | Yes |
| 1980 | Battle Beyond the Stars | — | Jimmy T. Murakami Roger Corman (uncredited) |
Seven Samurai (Unauthorized) | USA | No |
| 1989 | Zhong yi qun ying | Seven Warriors | Terry Tong | Seven Samurai | Hong Kong | Yes, at least on the DVD cover. |
| 1996 | Last Man Standing | — | Walter Hill | Yojimbo | USA | Yes |
| 2001 | Kaze no Yojimbo (anime television series) | — | Hayato Date | Yojimbo | Japan | Yes |
| 2004 | Samurai 7 (anime television series) | — | Toshifumi Takizawa (and others) | Seven Samurai | Japan—USA | Yes |
| 2007 | Tsubaki Sanjurō | Sanjurō Tsubaki | Yoshimitsu Morita | Sanjuro | Japan | Yes |
| Tengoku to Jigoku | Heaven and Hell | Yasuo Tsuruhashi | High and Low | Japan (TV) | No | |
| 2008 | Kakushi Toride no San-Akunin: The Last Princess | Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess | Shinji Higuchi | The Hidden Fortress | Japan | Yes |
| 2012 | Gwanghae, Wangyidoen namja | Masquerade | Chang-min Choo | Kagemusha | South Korea | No |
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