Academic Paper by William Conlin. By the late 1960’s world cinema was embracing the concept of the lone warrior. The styles that great Japanese filmmakers such as Kurosawa and Inagaki had portrayed were being globalized. In 1965 Sergio Leone began his “Dollars Trilogy” based on Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Leone’s trilogy was completed two years later with … Continue reading Lone Warrior: Examining Melville’s Le Samouraï