七人の侍
Its influence can be most strongly felt in the Western "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), a film specifically adapted from "Seven Samurai". Director John Sturges took "Seven Samurai" and adapted it to the Old West, with the samurai replaced by gunslingers. Many of "The Magnificent Seven"s scenes mirror those of "Seven Samurai". However, in an interview with R. B. Gadi, Kurosawa expressed how "the American copy of "The Magnificent Seven" is a disappointment, although entertaining. It is not a version of "Seven Samurai"". Stephen Prince argues that considering samurai films and Westerns respond to different cultures and contexts, what Kurosawa found useful was not their content but rather he was inspired by their levels of syntactic movement, framing, form and grammar.