Yojimbo is itself believed to have been based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest.
It also takes inspiration from the "Man with No Name" stock character variously used in the spaghetti western genre but most notably in the Dollars trilogy by Sergio Leone (initially inspired by Akira Kurosawa's jidaigeki film Yojimbo).
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Stephen King has acknowledged multiple sources of influence for this story, including Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, its stepchild The Magnificent Seven, Sergio Leone's "Man with No Name" trilogy, and other works by Howard Hawks and John Sturges, among others.
The Gloria Chan sex scandal is a popular case that began publicizing in Hong Kong December 2010 between former Asian Games athlete Gloria Chan Hok-yan (陳學殷) and a mysterious man with no name referred to by the media as "rich tycoon X" (富商X).
Martin Freeland, also known as Man With No Name, M.W.N.N. or Mr Techno Techno Techno, is a British Goa trance artist (record producer and DJ) and one of the defining artists of the genre.
Freeland released several further tracks under his Man With No Name title, before becoming influenced by the sound of Goa trance.
Music for Man With No Name is a collaborative single release by Merzbow and Cock E.S.P..