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Red Sun (1971)

Red Sun poster
Original title
Soleil Rouge
Directed by
Terence Young
Genre
action film, Western film, adventure film, thriller film
Country
France, Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 318 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A samurai and a gunslinger reluctantly team up to recover a stolen treasure. They chase the thieves across the American West, clashing over their different codes of honor.

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What happens

Red Sun (French: Soleil rouge, Italian: Sole rosso) is a 1971 Spaghetti Western film directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson, Toshirō Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, and Capucine. The Franco-Italian international co-production was filmed in Spain by the British director Young, with a screenplay by Denne Bart Petitclerc, William Roberts, and Lawrence Roman from a story by Laird Koenig. The film was released in the United States on 9 June 1972. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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