The white clad Genji, led by Yoshitsune and the red clad Heike led by Kiyomori, face off once again in a poor mountain town. Both sides searching for a legendary treasure that may be buried there. A lone gunman, burdened with emotional scars but blessed with incredible shooting skills, drifts into town. Expectations reach boiling point as everyone wonders which gang the gunman will finally decide to join. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire and love collide as the situation erupts into a final, explosive showdown. With the western genre, most assume a Hollywood film. But from the 1960s to the mid 1970s, several films know as “spaghetti westerns” or “macaroni westerns” in Japanese were produced in Italy. In 2007, after spanning the globe, this same soul of filmmaking returned to Japan in director Takashi Miike’s all English dialogue, samurai action and western fusion genre, Sukiyaki Western Django. Blue-eyed samurai, actor Quentin Tarantino appearing in his first Japanese film. (Dosin PAK)