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    May 12

    Wierd Wierd West

     
    The Good, The Bad and The Weird
     
    An Eastern Western is a rare and, if 2000's kitsch Thai cowboy movie Tears Of The Black Tiger is anything to go by, surreal experience.
     
    Still it's not so hard to get your head around the concept when you remember that The Magnificent Seven and A Fistful Of Dollars were remakes of Akira Kurosawa movies, and that the great director himself is said to have learned his art by watching John Ford Westerns.
     
    The Good, The Bad and The Wierd
    This summer's Segio Leone inspired Korean movie The Good, The Bad and The Wierd is a tantalising prospect. Bounty hunter Woo-sung Jung (The Good), bandit leader Byung-hun Lee (The Bad) and train robber Kang-ho Song (The Wierd) compete in a chase to own a mysterious map pursued by bandits and the Japanese army.
     
    It is directed by Ji-woon Kim (A Bittersweet Life) and is set in the Manchurian desert in the 1930s, so not only do you have gun fighters chasing trains on horseback but also in a motorbike and sidecar.
     
    The Good, The Bad and The Weird
     
    Check out this clip on YouTube.

       
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