We looooove genre-mashing here at the BONUS MATERIAL, and one of the finest examples is director Terrance Young's RED SUN, starring the incredible international superstar cast of Charles Bronson, Alain Delon, Toshiro Mufune, Ursula Andress, and Capucine.
Young, after a run of James Bond films (DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, THUNDERBALL) and a classic terror-suspense film (WAIT UNTIL DARK) takes on the Western, and gives it quite the spin. A visiting Japanese ambassador is killed with the kitana he has brought from his homeland as a gift to President Ulysses S. Grant. This ignites a trail of vengeance, as the slain dignitaries' samurai bodyguard cuts a violent path straight to the proverbial "black hat".
RED SUN isn't nearly as lauded as it deserves, and if you've not yet experienced this multicultural gun slinging, sword swinging opus, run don't walk!
~Sean Smithson & Thom Carnell
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