Red Sun | 
| Director: Terence Young
Actors: Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon, Capucine
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
Buy New: $114.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 119821
Format: Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 6304610157
UPC: 084296400805
EAN: 9786304610152
ASIN: 6304610157
Theatrical Release Date: June 9, 1972
Release Date: July 15, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews...
 Bad DVD July 1, 2009
Richard B. Spurgeon (Roseburg,OR)
I was looking forward to seeing the movie. It was not in NTSC format so it will not play in the USA. Can not be returned because it was opened. Will never do business with this person again!!!!
 Cowboys and Samurais May 7, 2009
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
Red Sun aka Soleil Rouge is one of those gloriously demented pitches - cowboys and samurais in a French-Italian Western shot in Spain by an English director with a Swiss leading lady. As if that isn't mad enough, the villain is Alain Delon's French cowboy, who leaves his train robbing buddy Charles Bronson to take the fall after stealing the Emperor of Japan's gold sword, leaving Bronson and the Japanese ambassador's samurai bodyguard Toshiro Mifune with only seven days to track it down before the Kurosawa regular has to commit hari-kiri ("Now that's something I'd like to see!" quips Bronson). Oh, and Ursula Andress and Capucine are along for the ride, as is Terence Young regular Anthony Dawson as the screen's unlikeliest cowboy desperado. Throw in a hostile tribe of Comanches on the warpath and the editor of The Wild Bunch you should be all set for one of the best genre hybrids of the 70s. Only, sadly, while it may offer two iconic samurai for the price of one - Le Samourai and the Seventh Samurai - it isn't anywhere near as good as it sounds.
While a long way from his laziest work, Terence Young directs with more efficiency than imagination and as a result there's not too much to get excited about here. Aside from the final fight with hostiles in a burning field of tall grass the action scenes make little impression, Bronson and Mifune don't bring their A-game to the party (not too surprising with dialogue like "I think you're a helluva man." "I think you're a son of a beesh!") while it all feels rather too leisurely at 112 minutes. Then there's the rather coy nudity - Andress does undress, but only allows a glimpse of one breast and one buttock as if she only got paid half her going rate and wouldn't let the producers see the full set. Still, Maurice Jarre's eccentric score incorporating koto, dulcimer, ondes martinot, accordion and symphony orchestra makes an impression, and Delon enjoys himself as the trigger-happy black-clad villain 'Gauche.' Definitely worth a watch, but certainly not a keeper.
Cinema Club's PAL UK DVD has a good fullframe transfer with the international trailer (missspelling Delon's character name as Gotch!) the only extra.
This movie has it all October 3, 2008
J. Wiese (Denver, CO USA)
We just saw this movie on TV and while it probably deserved the 2 stars the TV rating gave it, we had a ball watching it. This movie has it all! Cowboys, Indians, Train Robberies, Mexican Missions, Prostitutes, Gushing Fake Blood, and Samurai. What more could you ask for in a Western.
One of the better Westerns February 19, 2008
Bookblitzer (Clemson, SC)
This little known classic, staring Charles Bronson and directed by Terence Young, is one of the better Westerns of all time. With an interesting plot that entangles a Japanese Samurai warrior and an American outlaw in their quest to retrieve a stolen ceremonial sword, it has clever twists and even a nice touch of humor, the only downside being the acting of Ursula Andress, whose performance cannot entirely be overshadowed by her physical attributes!
All in all, if you have a multi-region player, this movie is definitely worth watching.
Should have been really good. October 12, 2007
blockhed (UK)
Bronson was a great actor. Mifune had real style. Delon was a French icon: Lefty Gauche, the dude in black, with no redeeming features. Andress was, well, Andress. Capucine for a pinch of spice. Terrific scenery. Lots of villains. Comanches round every corner, and field of corn. High death-count. Weird amalgam of East and West, once predicted as never the twain shall meet. Bronson had a real sense of humour. OK. It was fun, but it went on too long, and the story should have been tightened several notches. Someone said it was "loose", and that about sums it up. It rambled all around, and nearly everyone got butchered. What was it all about ? Take it easy, I guess, you might die any minute. No point in shedding tears about anything, even if you lose a million dollars.
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