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The man with no name ((イタリア語:Uomo senza nome)) is three characters portrayed by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Western films: ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964), ''For a Few Dollars More'' (1965) and ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' (1966). In 2008, ''Empire'' chose "The Man With No Name" as the 43rd greatest movie character of all time. ==Concept and creation== ''A Fistful of Dollars'' was directly adapted from Akira Kurosawa's ''Yojimbo'' (1961). It was the subject of a successful lawsuit by ''Yojimbo's'' producers. The film's protagonist, an unconventional ronin (a Samurai with no master) played by Toshiro Mifune, bears a striking resemblance to Eastwood's character: both are quiet, gruff, eccentric strangers with a strong but unorthodox sense of justice and extraordinary proficiency with a particular weapon (in Mifune's case, a katana; for Eastwood, a revolver). Like Eastwood's western setting character, Mifune plays a ronin with no name. When pressed, he gives the pseudonym ''Sanjuro Kuwabatake'' (meaning "Thirty-year-old Mulberry-field"), a reference to his age and something he sees through a window (although regarding the age he jokes 'Closer to forty actually'). The convention of hiding the character's arms from view is shared as well, with Mifune's character typically wearing his arms inside his kimono, leaving the sleeves empty. Prior to signing on to ''Fistful,'' Eastwood had seen Kurosawa's film and was impressed by the character.〔From an interview conducted for a DVD documentary on Kurosawa〕 During filming, he did not emulate Mifune's performance beyond what was already in the script. He also insisted on removing some of the dialogue in the original script, making the character more silent and thus adding to his mystery. As the trilogy progressed, the character became even more silent and stoic. ''Yojimbo '' is itself believed to have been based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel ''Red Harvest''.〔 Kurosawa scholar David Desser and film critic Manny Farber, among others, state categorically that ''Red Harvest'' was the inspiration for the Kurosawa film ''Yojimbo''. Leone himself clearly believed this theory, stating "Kurosawa's ''Yojimbo'' was inspired by an American novel of the ''série noire'' so I was really taking the story back home again." Although Kurosawa never publicly credited Hammett, Roger Corman claims that Kurosawa privately acknowledged ''Red Harvest'' as an influence. The lead character in Hammett's ''Red Harvest'' is also nameless, identified only as a Continental Op after the detective agency he works for. A subsequent film, ''Last Man Standing'' (1996) starring Bruce Willis, is a credited remake of ''Yojimbo''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Man with No Name」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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