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Which American western was inspired by Seven Samurai?
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Kurosawa Akira
Kurosawa Akira, 1961.
The American western inspired by Kurosawa Akira’s 1954 film Seven Samurai is the 1960 movie The Magnificent Seven, directed by John Sturges.123