There’s a Japanese remake of Unforgiven set in Hokkaido when Japanese settlers were colonising the island.
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Another western set in Hokkaido.
ETA
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Guam is farther… And is about to get into a mexican standoff with North Korea.
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Anyone for '80s Punk Western?
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Yeah, I going to reject that notion. The western genre has to include more than just lawlessness and geographic location. Didn’t Casino take place in Nevada? Is that a Western?
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That’s a good point. I feel like it has more to do with a frontier setting than the actual position on a map.
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Gary Cooper is in it?
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From the linked WP article:
George Lucas’s Star Wars films use many elements of a Western, and Lucas has said he intended for Star Wars to revitalize cinematic mythology, a part the Western once held.
Oh!
After 40 years I feel vindicated!
I’ve always maintained I don’t like Star Wars¹ because I don’t like traditional westerns.
Only now I see Wikipedia agrees with me in the categorization.
¹ Full disclosure: The last Star Wars movie I watched was “The return of the Jedi”, but only due to social pressure, in 1983 or 84. I found the whole original trilogy was so underwhelming I never felt the need to watch the newer stuff.
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Only in the most technical and irrelevant sense. Administratively, the US Census Bureau divides the USA into four regions (and nine divisions). One of the regions is named “Midwest”, but it’s just a name and not intended to “define” the Midwest.
The Bureau does report decennial and other data (such as ACS) at the region and division level. However, in my ~15 years of working with Census data, both as an analyst and a provider, I have never encountered anyone using region- or even division-level data.
ETA comment also in reply to @jhbadger
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Not a good look, just fyi.
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So “Midwest” can mean anything and formal uses like the census are irrelevant – even for what is “generally considered” it, as was the statement – but “Western” has a precise definition that somehow excludes it? I’m not sure what you think you’re arguing here.
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The very concept of ‘the Midwest’ is rather erroneous, considering that it dates back to a time when “the West” stopped at the Mississippi River.
Hell, they call Ohio ‘the Midwest’, and it’s not near either the middle nor anywhere near the West.
Misnomers are a thing.
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Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet
Because Oklahoma is partly in the Great Plains!
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My Ted Talk / Wendy’s-drive-through opinion is that Season 1 Manalorian is a Western.
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Firefly is a western.
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I swear by my pretty little bonnet it is.
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Surprised I don’t see this one on that list:
Or:
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Deep Space Nine wasn’t a Western but it’s clearly "drinking from the same well’ as all those frontier town stories.
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Hats, lots of hats, guns, lots of guns, frequently horses, and saloons with fragile furniture.
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