Non-american, Non-spaghetti westerns?
that don’t make no sense.
Westerns from around the world, not just Italy or America?
I.E. Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, China, Russia, France..
nothing comes to mind except some stuff out of mexico
The Wild East
no subs :(
i always figured the “western” genre was a purely north american phenomenon but i mean hell, everyone has their own kind of “western” right?
Some director from Madagascar should make a western.
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…was going to say El Topo when I noticed this topic was attached to that film lol.
Oh well, how about El Ultimo Tren (more modern setting)
and Trigun (anime series)
How about the Thai film Tears of the Black Tiger- very stylised with its sets, like Roy Rogers (kitschy type of outfit anyway) meets Kwaidan
The Proposition
directed by John Hillcoat.
Australian
Black God, White Devil
Antonio das Mortes (playing in directors cup round 2)
Two Brazilian “westerns” from Glauber Rocha. I imagine he made a few more too.
There are lots of westerns or pseudo-westerns made around the world, it just depends on where you draw the line on what a western is. Australia and India, for example, have a great many films that fit most of the definitions of westerns, except they are set in their own countries. Bollywood has a mini-genre called the curry western. Thailand’s Black Tiger and South Africa’s Dust Devil are also strange sorts of westerns, but I don’t think listing them would be out of line. I didn’t include Mexico, because there are just too many films there that would qualify as approximating westerns from a Mexican perspective, that I wouldn’t even know where to begin in trying to name them. Films like El compadre Mendoza are as good as anything that came out of Hollywood about the era associated with the western. This isn’t an exhaustive list, just those that came to mind or popped up when searching for title spellings. I haven’t seen all of these, but a good share of them except for the West German ones which I haven’t had a chance to find yet.
(I only listed the grandaddy of the curry westerns Sholay, but there are, as I said, many more whose name elude me at the moment.)
East Germany:
Weiße Wölfe
Ulzana
Apachen
Blutsbrüder
Sing, Cowboy, Sing
Trini
Sons of the Great Bear
Chingachgook
West Germany:
Apache Gold
Shatterhand
Last of the Renegades
Frontier Hellcat
Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Flaming Frontier
The Desperado Trail
Czechoslovakia:
Lemonade Joe
British:
Hannie Caulder
A Town Called Hell
Captain Apache
The Man Called Noon
The Hunting Party
Charley One-Eye
Canadian:
The Grey Fox
Gunless
Australian:
The Proposition
Quigley Down Under
Ned Kelly
The Man From Snowy River
South African:
Dust Devil
Hong Kong:
Once Upon a Time in China and America
Japan
Sukiyaki Western Django
Thailand
Tears of the Black Tiger
India:
Sholay
A few more (and they are very very good):
Argentinean La guerra gaucha (1942) by Lucas Demare
Mexican Los hermanos Del Hierro (1961) by Ismael Rodríguez
Turkish Seyyit Han (1968) by Yilmaz Güney
there’s always Fassbinder’s Whity , and Marco Ferreri’s Don’t Touch The White Woman
Lucky Luke is a sort of French comedy western… I guess you could try that. Not my favourite, though. There’s also Sukiyaki Western Django (but again, that’s pretty much Yojimbo).
ha lemonade Joe brilliant!
i just found a hungarian western that i really want to see now….in that landscape….wow…
The Wind Blows Under Your Feet
SUMMER LOVE (Piotr Uklanski). Polish western with Val Kilmer.
http://www.summerlovefilm.com/
great recommendations!… now if only there were access to most of these, we could be in good shape.
The Good, The Bad and The Weird… I am not kidding, look this one up from South Korea you will not be disappointed.
Also
Gunfighter Johnny (India)
and
Tears of The Black Tiger has already been mentioned.
Also, check out Australian films, very “Amerian Western” feel to alot of those
Tears of The Black Tiger is available streaming through Netflix
and
The Good, The Bad and The Weird is available now on DVD
GregX has a great list, I forgot about Dust Devil
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Whity.”
brady qw
I’m interested in learning about these…