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context: comics > Subjects
Samurai
Once the ban on samurai stories mentioned in the previous section went away, these figures took their vital places in Japanese comics - the parallels to the western in the US are unmistakeable, and explain why it was so easy to translate classic samurai movies into The Magnificent Seven and A Fistful Of Dollars.
However, it is worth observing that these were seen only in cartoony children's stories until Sampei Shirato changed things in 1959 with his realistically drawn, brutally violent and politically challenging tales, and the importance of this genre for adults was cemented with the work of Goseki Kojima and Hiroshi Hirata.
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