Don't forget that Leone had Morricone music also, I don't recall if Yohimbo had any.
I think that they are both great movies...
true-but Kurosawa took the Hammett story and made it his own-while Leone took the Kikushima/Kurosawa screenplay and lost the lawsuit
Fellow Brethern,But second, Kurosawa did his own copying from an American story (according to Something to do with death).