sentences:  "Seven Samurai" has been remade as a Western and a science fiction context film, "The Magnificent Seven" and "Battle Beyond the Stars".Other samurai influenced western movies include Charles Bronson and Toshirō Mifune in "Red Sun" (1971), David Mamet's "Ronin" (with Jean Reno and Robert De Niro), "Six-String Samurai" (1998) and "" (1999).The Zatoichi character was re-made as "Blind Fury" in the United States, starring Rutger Hauer as a blind swordsman living in the modern US.