7 Best Japanese Westerns, Ranked
Japan has produced some fascinating movies that combine the Western genre with more traditional sensibilities found in the country's best movies.
If you thought Tampopo was the only "ramen Western" or that Yojimbo and Lone Wolf and Cub would be the only Western-adjacent Japanese movies, you'd be wrong. Some of Japan's biggest filmmakers were heavily inspired by the genre and made plenty of Western movies that could easily compete with American ones, despite a massive cultural distance between the American Old West and Japanese filmmakers and the country's sentiment.
