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A Fistful of Dollars was a Japanese movie before it was an Euromerican one. Specifically, it was a frame-for-frame remake of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1961 samurai picture Yojimbo... which was why Yojimbo's producers were eventually awarded 15 percent of the remake's worldwide gross in a successful lawsuit.
6 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Remakes | Cracked.com