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Michael Wood writing for the "London Review of Books" found the film to span several genres and compared it to films such as "Seven Samurai", "A Fistful of Dollars", "High Noon", "The Outlaw Josey Wales", and "Rashomon" stating, "(The film contains) comedy, satire, folk tale, action movie, Western, samurai film, and something like a musical without songs. As everyone says, this work is not as deep as "Rashomon" or as immediately memorable as "Seven Samurai". But it is funnier than any Western from either side of the world, and its only competition, in a bleaker mode, would be Clint Eastwood’s "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976)". In 2009 the film was voted at No. 23 on the list of "The Greatest Japanese Films of All Time" by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo.