Unforgiven

In 1880, in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, a cowboy named Quick Mike slashes prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald's face with a knife, permanently disfiguring her after she laughs at his small penis. As punishment, Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett orders Mike and his associate who was with him at the brothel, Davey Bunting, to turn over several of their ponies to Delilah's employer, Skinny DuBois, for his loss of revenue. Outraged, the prostitutes offer a $1,000 bounty for the cowboys' deaths.

In Hodgeman County, Kansas, a boastful young man visits Will Munny's hog farm. He calls himself the "Schofield Kid" and claims to be an experienced bounty hunter looking for help pursuing the cowboys. Formerly a notorious outlaw and murderer, Will is now a repentant widower raising two children. After initially refusing to help, Will realizes that his farm is failing and his children's future is in jeopardy. He recruits his friend Ned Logan, another retired outlaw, and they catch up with the Kid, who they discover is severely near-sighted.

Back in Big Whiskey, British-born gunfighter "English" Bob, an old acquaintance and rival of Little Bill's, seeks the bounty. He arrives in town with his biographer W. W. Beauchamp, who naively believes Bob's tall tales. Enforcing the town's antigun law, Little Bill, with his deputies, disarms Bob and beats him savagely to discourage others from attempting to claim the bounty. Bob, humiliated, is banished from town the next morning, but Beauchamp stays out of a fascination with the sheriff, who debunks many of the romantic notions Beauchamp has about the Wild West. Little Bill explains to Beauchamp that the best attribute for a gunslinger is to be cool-headed under fire rather than to have the quickest draw, and to always kill the best shooter first.

Will, Ned, and the Kid arrive in town during a rainstorm and enter Skinny's saloon. While Ned and the Kid meet with the prostitutes upstairs, Little Bill confronts a feverish Will. Not realizing Will's identity, but correctly guessing that he wants the bounty, Bill confiscates his pistol and beats him. Ned and the Kid escape through a back window and take Will to an unoccupied barn outside of town, where they and the prostitutes nurse him back to health. A few days later, the trio ambush Davey. After missing Davey and shooting his horse, Ned falters and Will shoots Davey instead. Ned decides to quit and return to Kansas.

Ned is later captured and flogged to death by Little Bill to learn the whereabouts of Will and the Kid. Will takes the Kid with him to the cowboys' ranch, directing him to ambush Quick Mike in the outhouse and shoot him. After they escape, a distraught Kid drunkenly confesses he had never killed anyone before and is overcome with remorse. A prostitute arrives with the reward and tells them about Ned's fate. Shocked by the news, Will begins drinking and demands the Kid's revolver. The Kid hands it over, saying that he no longer wants to be a killer, and Will sends him back to Kansas to distribute the reward.

That night, Will finds Ned's corpse displayed in a coffin outside Skinny's saloon. Inside, Little Bill and his deputies are organizing a posse. Will walks in alone, brandishing a shotgun, and kills Skinny for displaying Ned's corpse. He then aims at Little Bill, but the shotgun misfires. In the ensuing gunfight, Will shoots Little Bill and several other members of the posse with the revolver. He then orders the rest of the men out. Beauchamp lingers briefly to ask how Will survived. Will replies that it was luck and scares him away. Little Bill tries and fails to take another shot at Will while lying on the floor, then bemoans his fate and curses Will, who shoots him dead. Will shouts threats as he mounts his horse and rides out of town.

A closing title card states that Will's mother-in-law found his farm abandoned years later, Will having possibly moved to San Francisco with the children. She remained at a loss to understand why her daughter married such a notorious outlaw and murderer.

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• Clint Eastwood as William "Will" Munny
• Gene Hackman as Sheriff "Little" Bill Daggett
• Morgan Freeman as Ned Logan
• Richard Harris as English Bob
• Jaimz Woolvett as the Schofield Kid
• Saul Rubinek as W.W. Beauchamp
• Frances Fisher as Strawberry Alice
• Anna Thomson as Delilah Fitzgerald
• David Mucci as Quick Mike
• Rob Campbell as Davey Bunting
• Anthony James as Skinny Dubois
• Tara Dawn Frederick as Little Sue
• Beverley Elliott as Silky
• Liisa Repo-Martell as Faith
• Josie Smith as Crow Creek Kate
• Cherrilene Cardinal as Sally Two Trees
• Shane Meier as William Munny Jr.
• Aline Levasseur as Penny Munny
• Ron White as Deputy Clyde Ledbetter
• Jeremy Ratchford as Deputy Andy Russell
• John Pyper-Ferguson as Deputy Charley Hecker
• Jefferson Mappin as Deputy Fatty Rossiter
• Mina E. Mina as Muddy Chandler
• Henry Kope as German Joe Schultz
• Larry Joshua as Bucky
• Ben Cardinal as Johnny Foley
• Frank C. Turner as Fuzzy
• Lochlyn Munro as Texas Slim
• Philip Hayes as Lippy MacGregor

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The film was written by David Webb Peoples, who had written the Oscar-nominated film The Day After Trinity and co-written Blade Runner with Hampton Fancher.{{sfn|McGilligan|1999|p=467}} The concept for the film dated to 1976, when it was developed under the titles The Cut-Whore Killings and The William Munny Killings.{{sfn|McGilligan|1999|p=467}} The script was originally optioned by Francis Ford Coppola, who failed to raise the money to develop the project any further.{{cite web | url=https://cinephiliabeyond.org/unforgiven-clint-eastwoods-eulogy-man-no-name-anti-western-masterpiece/ | title='Unforgiven': Clint Eastwood's Eulogy for the Man with No Name in His Anti-Western Masterpiece • Cinephilia & Beyond | date=September 12, 2017 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-10-05-ca-512-story.html | title=Q&A; WITH DAVID WEBB PEOPLES : A Reluctant Hollywood Hero | website=Los Angeles Times | date=October 5, 1992 }}

By Eastwood's own recollection, he was given the script in the "early 80s", although he did not immediately pursue it, because according to him, "I thought I should do some other things first".{{Cite news |last=Whittey |first=Stephen |date=June 13, 2014 |title=Clint Eastwood on 'Jersey Boys,' taking risks and a life well lived |work=NJ.com |url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/06/jersey_boys_clint_eastwood_director_four_seasons.html |access-date=October 10, 2015 |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208194123/http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/06/jersey_boys_clint_eastwood_director_four_seasons.html |url-status=live}} In 1984, Sonia Chernus, Eastwood's long time story editor at Malpaso Productions, sent him a scathing memo after reading the script stating that "it doesn't deserve my time or yours" and is "an insult to this company" and that Eastwood should "get rid of it FAST".{{Cite web |last=Archive |first=Clint's |date=2021-09-25 |title=The Clint Eastwood Archive: Internal memo from January 1984 concerning Unforgiven |url=https://theclinteastwoodarchive.blogspot.com/2021/09/internal-memo-from-january-1984.html |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=The Clint Eastwood Archive}}{{Cite web |date=2024-12-12 |title=The career-defining movie Clint Eastwood was told not to make |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/career-defining-movie-clint-eastwood-told-not-make/ |access-date=2025-02-19 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}

Eastwood personally phoned Harris to offer him the role of English Bob, and later said Harris was watching Eastwood's movie High Plains Drifter at the time of the phone call, leading to Harris thinking it was a prank.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywood.com/general/richard-harris-was-watching-eastwood-film-when-director-offered-him-unforgiven-role-60238377/ |title=Richard Harris was watching Eastwood film when director offered him Unforgiven role |date=March 17, 2015 |access-date=October 7, 2021 |work=Hollywood.com}}

Gene Hackman was hesitant to play Bill Daggett, as his daughters were upset that he was starring in too many violent films, but his agent and Eastwood convinced him to do it.{{cite web |title=CNN.com Transcripts |url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2004-07-07/segment/01 |website=CNN.com |access-date=28 February 2025|archive-date=February 28, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250228013928/https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/lkl/date/2004-07-07/segment/01|url-status=live}}{{cite web | url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2017/07/30/gene-hackman-initially-turned-down-unforgiven-which-turns-25-on-thursday/ | title=Gene Hackman initially turned down Unforgiven,' which turns 25 on Thursday | website=New York Daily News | date=July 30, 2017 }}

Filming took place between August 26, 1991, and November 12, 1991.{{Cite web |title=Miscellaneous Notes |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/18386/unforgiven#notes |access-date=September 20, 2015 |website=Turner Classic Movies |publisher=A Time Warner Company |archive-date=February 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225205809/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/18386/Unforgiven/misc-notes.html |url-status=live}} Much of the film was shot in Alberta in August 1991 by director of photography Jack Green.{{sfn|McGilligan|1999|p=469}} Production designer Henry Bumstead, who had worked with Eastwood on High Plains Drifter, was hired to create the "drained, wintry look" of the Western.{{sfn|McGilligan|1999|p=469}} The railroad scenes were filmed on the Sierra Railroad in Tuolumne County, California.{{cite book | last =Jensen | first =Larry | authorlink = | title =Hollywood's Railroads: Sierra Railroad | publisher =Cochetopa Press | series = | volume = Two| edition = | date =2018 | location =Sequim, Washington | pages =2–65 | language = | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=c-RNswEACAAJ&q=Hollywood%27s+Railroads | doi = | id = | isbn =9780692064726 | mr = | zbl = | jfm = }}

Like other revisionist Westerns, Unforgiven is primarily concerned with deconstructing the morally black-and-white vision of the American West, which was established by traditional works in the genre, as the script is saturated with unnerving reminders of the now teetotaling Munny's own horrific past as a drunken murderer and gunfighter, who is haunted by the lives he has taken,{{Cite web |title=How Unforgiven laid the classic movie western to rest |url=https://lwlies.com/articles/unforgiven-clint-eastwood-revisionist-western/ |access-date=October 1, 2020 |website=Little White Lies |language=en |archive-date=August 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812145238/https://lwlies.com/articles/unforgiven-clint-eastwood-revisionist-western/ |url-status=live}} while the film as a whole "reflects a reverse image of classical Western tropes"; the protagonists, rather than avenging a God-fearing innocent, are hired to collect a bounty offered by a group of prostitutes. Men who claim to be fearless killers are variously exposed as being either cowards, weaklings, or self-promoting liars, while others find that they no longer have it in them to take yet another life. A writer with no concept of the harshness and cruelty of frontier life publishes stories which glorify common criminals as infallible men of honor. The law is represented by a pitiless and cynical former gun-slinger whose idea of justice is often swift and without mercy, and while the main protagonist initially tries to resist his own violent impulses, the murder of his old friend drives him to become the same cold-blooded killer he once was, suggesting that a Western hero is not necessarily "the good guy", but is instead "just the one who survived".{{Cite web |title=Unforgiven (1992) |url=https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/unforgiven/ |access-date=October 1, 2020 |website=Deep Focus Review |date=March 11, 2012 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923003504/https://deepfocusreview.com/definitives/unforgiven/ |url-status=live}}{{self-published inline|date=April 2021}}

Film scholar Allen Redmon describes Munny's role as an antihero by stating he is "a virtuous or an injured hero [who] overcomes all obstacles to see that evil is eradicated, using whatever means necessary".{{Cite journal |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2004.00139.x |title=Mechanisms of Violence in Clint Eastwood's 'Unforgiven' and 'Mystic River' |first=Allen |last=Redmon |date=October 7, 2004 |journal=The Journal of American Culture |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=315–328 |doi=10.1111/j.1537-4726.2004.00139.x |access-date=April 18, 2021 |archive-date=May 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516203525/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2004.00139.x |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }}

Critic Sven Mikulec called the film Eastwood's "eulogy to the Man with No Name character that made him immortal."{{Cite web |last=Mikulec |first=Sven |date=2017-09-12 |title=‘Unforgiven’: Clint Eastwood’s Eulogy for the Man with No Name in His Anti-Western Masterpiece • Cinephilia & Beyond |url=https://cinephiliabeyond.org/unforgiven-clint-eastwoods-eulogy-man-no-name-anti-western-masterpiece/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Cinephilia & Beyond |language=en-US}}

Unforgiven shares many parallels with Homer's Iliad, in characters and themes. "In both works, the protagonists – Achilles and William Munny – are self-questioning warriors who temporarily reject the culture of violence, only to return to it after the death of their closest male friend, in which they are implicated."{{Cite journal |last1=Blundell |first1=Mary Whitlock |last2=Ormand |first2=Kirk |date=1997 |title=Western Values, or the Peoples Homer: "Unforgiven" as a Reading of the "Iliad" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1773186 |journal=Poetics Today |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=533–569 |doi=10.2307/1773186 |jstor=1773186 |issn=0333-5372|url-access=subscription }} Munny and Achilles have the same dilemma between fate and counter-fate. They know that their fate is being a warrior and likely dying that way; however, they both try to reject it for at least some time. Munny continually claims he has changed and "ain't like that no more", referring to his warrior-like hitman past, whereas Achilles continually refuses to be a soldier in the Greek army since he condemns Agamemnon for stealing his captured bride as war spoil.

Neither wants to kill for causes from their past (Munny being an outlaw, Achilles being a warrior-king) since they find them unjust. Both are committed to a "higher" cause—Munny to his children and his wife's wishes, and Achilles to the injustice of women-stealing and to Briseis, who at one point he would have had to sacrifice to Agamemnon to stop the war.

When their best friends are killed—Achilles' Patroclus and Munny's Ned—they allow their rage and desire for vengeance, though, to make them return to their warrior-prescribed fate. Achilles rages against the Trojans and kills many. He gets vengeance by killing Hector and desecrating his corpse, dragging it around the town. Munny rages against Little Bill and his crew. He gets vengeance by killing Little Bill and them, threatening to kill anyone who opposes him.

Relevant differences are seen, though, between Homer's epic and Eastwood's film, namely that Achilles is fated to die in battle, whereas Munny moves to California at the end of the film to become a businessman to provide for his children. Whether Munny has successfully countered his warrior-fate is unclear, as is whether a life in dry goods redeems him as his love for his wife had done.

The film debuted at the top position in its opening weekend.{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=David J. |date=August 18, 1992 |title=Weekend Box Office: Eastwood Still Tall in the Saddle |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-18-ca-5744-story.html |access-date=December 1, 2010 |archive-date=April 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402055245/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-18/entertainment/ca-5744_1_weekend-box-office |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=David J. |date=August 25, 1992 |title=Weekend Box Office: 'Unforgiven' at Top for Third Week |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-25-ca-6052-story.html |access-date=December 1, 2010 |archive-date=April 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110402055251/http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-25/entertainment/ca-6052_1_weekend-box-office |url-status=live}} Its earnings of $15 million ($7,252 average from 2,071 theaters) in its opening weekend was the best-ever opening for a Clint Eastwood film at that time.{{sfn|McGilligan|1999|p=473}} This was also the highest August opening weekend, holding that record until it was surpassed a year later by The Fugitive.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109292457/the-fugitive-leads-at-box-office/ |title='The Fugitive' leads at box office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220914190918/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/109292457/the-fugitive-leads-at-box-office/ |date=August 9, 1993 |access-date=September 14, 2022 |archive-date=September 14, 2022 |page=19 |publisher=The Oshkosh Northwestern |via=Newspapers.com |url-status=live}} {{Open access}} It spent a total of three weeks as the number-one film in North America. In its 35th weekend (April 2–4, 1993), capitalizing on its Oscar wins, the film returned to the top 10 (spending another three weeks total there), ranking at number eight with a gross of $2.5 million ($2,969 average from 855 theaters), an improvement of 197% over the weekend before, when it made $855,188 ($1,767 average from 484 theaters). The film closed on July 15, 1993, having spent nearly a full year in theaters (343 days / 49 weeks), having earned $101.2 million in North America, and another $58 million internationally for a total of $159.2 million worldwide.{{sfn|McGilligan|1999|p=476}}

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 96% based on 109 reviews, and an average rating of 8.80/10. The website's critical consensus states: "As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence."{{Cite web |title=Unforgiven (1992) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1041911_unforgiven? |access-date=June 2, 2023 |website=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=Fandango Media |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112042547/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1041911_unforgiven |url-status=live}} Metacritic gave the film a score of 85 out of 100 based on 34 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".{{Cite web |title=Unforgiven Reviews |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/unforgiven |access-date=March 1, 2018 |website=Metacritic |publisher=CBS Interactive |archive-date=March 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314070359/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/unforgiven |url-status=live}} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Unforgiven" in the search box|publisher=CinemaScore|access-date=June 12, 2022}}

Jack Methews of the Los Angeles Times described Unforgiven as "the finest classical Western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 The Searchers." Richard Corliss in Time wrote that the film was "Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism—on all those burdens he has been carrying with such grace for decades."{{sfn|McGilligan|1999|p=473}} Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert criticized the work, though the latter gave it a positive vote, for being too long and having too many superfluous characters (such as Harris' English Bob, who enters and leaves without meeting the protagonists). Despite his initial reservations, Ebert eventually included the film in his "The Great Movies" list.{{Cite journal |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |date=July 21, 2002 |title=Unforgiven |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-unforgiven-1992 |journal=Rogerebert.com |publisher=Ebert Digital LLC |access-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318002134/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-unforgiven-1992 |url-status=live}}

Unforgiven was named one of the 10 best films of the year on 76 critics' lists, according to a poll of the nation's top 106 film critics.{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-24-ca-2356-story.html |title=106 Doesn't Add Up |first=David |last=Rothman |date=January 24, 1993 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-date=August 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801200207/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-24-ca-2356-story.html |url-status=live}}

American Film Institute recognition

In June 2008, Unforgiven was listed as the fourth best American film in the Western genre (behind The Searchers, High Noon, and Shane) in the American Film Institute's "AFI's 10 Top 10" list.{{Cite news |url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=46072 |title=AFI Crowns Top 10 Films in 10 Classic Genres |date=June 17, 2008 |work=Comingsoon.net |access-date=June 18, 2008 |archive-date=August 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080818100312/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=46072 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Top 10 Western |url=http://www.afi.com/10top10/western.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020155122/http://www.afi.com/10top10/western.html |archive-date=October 20, 2013 |access-date=June 18, 2008 |website=American Film Institute}}

• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – No. 98
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – No. 68

The music for the Unforgiven film trailer, which appeared in theaters and on some of the DVDs, was composed by Randy J. Shams and Tim Stithem in 1992. The main theme song, "Claudia's Theme", was composed by Clint Eastwood.{{Cite web |last=Cameron |date=February 24, 2015 |title=Not Dead Yet: Ten Best Modern Westerns |url=http://thefilmbox.org/top-10/ten-best-modern-westerns/10/ |access-date=November 15, 2015 |website=The Film Box |page=10 |archive-date=November 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117025403/http://thefilmbox.org/top-10/ten-best-modern-westerns/10/ |url-status=live}}

In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked Peoples' script for Unforgiven as the 30th-greatest ever written.{{Cite web |year=2013 |title=101 Greatest Screenplays |url=http://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list |access-date=September 14, 2016 |website=Writers Guild of America West |archive-date=November 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161122211118/http://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list |url-status=live}}

Unforgiven was released as premium home video, on DVD and VHS, on September 24, 2002.{{Cite web |last=Indvik |first=Kurt |date=July 3, 2002 |title=Warner Bows First Premium Video Line |url=http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/product_article.cfm?article_id=3395 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020828195253/http://www.hive4media.com/news/html/product_article.cfm?article_id=3395 |archive-date=August 28, 2002 |access-date=September 13, 2019 |website=hive4media.com |url-status=live}} It was released on Blu-ray Book (a Blu-ray Disc with book packaging) on February 21, 2012. Special features include an audio commentary by Clint Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel; four documentaries including "All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger", "Eastwood & Co.: Making Unforgiven", "Eastwood...A Star", and "Eastwood on Eastwood", and more.{{Cite journal |last=Newman |first=Gene |title=Unforgiven [Blu-ray Book] |url=http://www.maxim.com/movies/unforgiven-blu-ray-book |journal=Maxim.com |publisher=Alpha Media Group Inc. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502195755/http://www.maxim.com/movies/unforgiven-blu-ray-book |archive-date=May 2, 2013 |access-date=April 2, 2012}} Unforgiven was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on May 16, 2017.{{Cite web |title=Unforgiven 4K Blu-ray |website=blu-ray.com |url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Unforgiven-4K-Blu-ray/165822/ |access-date=April 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426134007/http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Unforgiven-4K-Blu-ray/165822/ |url-status=live}}

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A Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven, directed by Lee Sang-il and starring Ken Watanabe, was released in 2013. The plot of the 2013 version is very similar to the original, but it takes place in Japan during the Meiji period, with the main character being a samurai instead of a bandit.

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{{Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film}}

{{Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Film}}

{{London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year}}

{{Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film}}

{{Mainichi Film Award for Foreign Film Best One Award}}

{{National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film}}

{{Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Foreign Film}}

{{Cahiers du Cinéma Award for Best Film}}

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Category:1990s American films

Category:1990s English-language films

Category:1992 films

Category:1992 Western (genre) films

Category:American films about revenge

Category:American Western (genre) films

Category:BAFTA winners (films)

Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners

Category:English-language Western (genre) films

Category:Existentialist films

Category:Films about atonement

Category:Films about bounty hunters

Category:Films about outlaws

Category:Films about prostitution in the United States

Category:Films directed by Clint Eastwood

Category:Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award–winning performance

Category:Films featuring a Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe winning performance

Category:Films produced by Clint Eastwood

Category:Films scored by Lennie Niehaus

Category:Films set in 1881

Category:Films set in Kansas

Category:Films set in the 1880s

Category:Films set in the American frontier

Category:Films set in Wyoming

Category:Films shot in Calgary

Category:Films shot in California

Category:Films whose director won the Best Directing Academy Award

Category:Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Globe

Category:Films whose editor won the Best Film Editing Academy Award

Category:Films with screenplays by David Peoples

Category:Malpaso Productions films

Category:National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film winners

Category:Revisionist Western (genre) films

Category:United States National Film Registry films

Category:Village Roadshow Pictures films

Category:Warner Bros. films