27th February 2004, 2:16 PM
Well nobody really does Western games, period (yes I know you weren't specifically thinking of games). :D But some of the greatest Western movies were inspired by Japanese Samurai films, the best example being Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" which is based off of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo". Dollars was the movie that revitalized the Western genre in the states, and Western directors drew lots of inspiration from their Japanese Samurai filmmakers.. Westerns are very similar to Samurai movies, namely the ones that take place at the end of the 18th century. If you like Samurai movies you'll probably like a good Western, and vice versa. That's probably why there are so many good Western anime series out there, because of how similar the two genres are.