Rivals under the red sun
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Rivals under the red sun |
| Original title | Soleil rouge |
| Country of production | Spain , Italy , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Terence Young |
| script |
Laird Koenig Denne Bart Petitclerc William Roberts Lawrence novel |
| production |
Ted Richmond Robert Dorfmann |
| music | Maurice Jarre |
| camera | Henri Alekan |
| cut | Johnny Dwyre |
| occupation | |
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Rivals under the red sun (original title: Soleil rouge ) is a western by the director Terence Young from 1971 with Charles Bronson and Toshirō Mifune .
action
Arizona in 1870: A delegation of the Japanese Emperor , who is on the way to present the American President with a precious sword, is attacked by train robbers and loses the precious gem to their leader, Gauche. When one of the samurai bodyguards of the Japanese ambassador tries to prevent Gauche from doing so, the bandit shoots him down without further ado, and his companion, Kuroda, vows to punish Gauche within seven days and recapture the sword or commit suicide instead .
During the robbery, however, Gauche cheats one of his comrades, the bandit Link, out of his share of the booty and almost out of his life. To help him find Gauche, Kuroda recruits Link as a guide. At first, he is reluctant to take part, on the one hand because Gauche has ensured that only he knows the hiding place of the prey and its death by Kuroda would therefore be of no use to him, and on the other hand he does not like to be made a slave and therefore always tries again unsuccessfully to seize his revolvers, which Kuroda has in custody. But in their search for Gauche, Link and Kuroda gradually begin to understand each other better and the further their respect for each other grows, eventually they become friends.
To lure Gauche to them, the two kidnap his lover Christina and arrange a meeting with the bandit. On the way, however, Christina is forced to kill a Comaniac in self-defense, with the result that the warriors of the tribe chase after them and burst into the middle of the meeting between the two parties. Inevitably, the opponents must first pull themselves together against the common enemy and finally manage to beat the Indians. But when Kuroda, trying to take his revenge, is shot by Gauche, Link voluntarily renounces the hidden prey, kills Gauche and carries out his promise to the dying Kuroda to return the precious sword to the ambassador.
Reviews
“Highly popular mix of western and samurai film; thanks to the ironic undertone entertaining throughout. "
“The film (...) simply exploits the exoticism of the samurai wandering around the west, instead of receiving any real inspiration from the meeting of two exotic cultures (or three, if you count the Indians separately). (...) As a pure action film, the exotic western works fabulous. "
Web links
- Red Sun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Red Sun at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Rivals under the red sun in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rivals under the red sun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .