I'm well aware that some westerns made in the sixties and seventies were lifted from Samurai films. I love Yojimbo, which was remade literally scene by scene to become A Fistful of Dollars. But the movie genre existed weeeeeell before that began happening, pretty much from the dawn of film, and the lone gunman characters were always hugely popular within the genre. Also, those traveling desperadoes actually existed in the period. Also also, the old west basically did run on a feudal system.
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