'Red Sun' directed by Terence Young is a western about a group of outlaws who rob a train of gold coins but complications ensue when one outlaw is double crossed and also a ceremonial sword is stolen from a Japanese ambassador who happens to be on the train too. Two men find themselves bound together in search of the double crosser who has the gold coins and the sword so essentially it is a chase movie and apart from being a bit too long it is an exciting film. To see Toshiro Mifune from 'The Seven Samurai' and Charles Bronson from 'The Magnificent Seven' riding side by side as if they were in some kind of movie time warp is quite entertaining and the east-west contrast is done well. They both play against each other nicely with humour and feeling.Apart from Mifune and Bronson there is good support from Ursula Andress, Capucine and in a minor role the always welcome Anthony Dawson. Alain Delon is good as the main villain too but isn't in it enough. Mifune steals the film even when he isn't saying anything. He lifts the film whenever he is on screen.Praise also must go to the music score by Maurice Jarre, particularly in the action sequences and Henri Alekan's cinematography of the landscape is beautiful and adds greatly to the film. A fine western that entertains all the way.

I saw this years ago when it ran in the Cinemas. Had actually forgotten all about it until they showed it as the Sunday afternoon feature on the telly. It was good fun back then, and still is. The plot is pretty thin, but i guess they had to dream up some reason for placing a samuray in the wild West. This is definitely not a masterpiece, but then it never pretends to be. I bet somebody thought it would be a great idea to reap some of the popularity of the spaghetti westerns and the samurai movies. And as such it Works very well. Easily forgotten maybe, but very entertaining while it lasts. On top of that they put in some very good names. Alain Delon is perfectly evil as the bad guy, Mifune carries himself with all the natural grace of the honorable samuray, Bronson actually shows more than one facial expression and Ursula Andress shows her tits ! What more can you want ?

Red Sun has a great cast, good story, but it seems they spent the budget on the actors and left little for the rest. I cannot help comparing to "Escape From Fort Bravo" where the Indian attack scenes had all the expertise of MGM. In this western made in Spain you feel the distance from Hollywood, specially in the well planned,but otherwise lacking Indian combat scenes, with the exception of that wonderful confrontation between a Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) and a Native American. Alain Delon is an excellent villain and the relationship between Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson is the best reason for seeing this film.

If nothing else, RED SUN is a very entertaining western. Sometime in the late 1800s, Charles Bronson tracks down turncoat ex-partner-in-crime Alain Delon while Toshiro Mifune tracks down the Japanese Ambassador's sword (stolen by Delon). That's the plot. Along the way, Bronson, Mifune and Ursula Andress (as Delon's girlfriend) run into Indians and battle each other (Andress call Bronson a bastard or son-of-a-bitch a lot). Mifune is so stolid he makes the usually stolid Bronson look relaxed and it's not easy to see Andress made-up like a fashion model trekking through the Rockies (actually the Spanish country-side) and still take any of this seriously. Delon, in a relatively small role, is terrific as the oily villain and the stunning Capucine appears as a madam. Directed, with very surprising finesse, by Terence Young and featuring some beautiful photography by Henri Alekan.