any film which feature an unusual plot and a nude scene from ursula andress can not be all bad and but in most other department soleil rouge ( know in english speaking country a red sun ) be a disappointment . the director terence young may have make three successful bond movie and but the rest of his career be litter with mediocre or bad film like the christmas tree and the klansman and inchon and the jigsaw man . this be another example of young under achieve a a film maker . in 1870 and a locomtive make it way through the wild west . aboard be a small band of japanese traveller and head for washington with a valuable sword which they be to present to the president a a gift from the emperor of japan . an outlaw and link ( charles bronson ) and his gang storm the train and steal various valuable and include the afore mention blade . however and one of link accomplice and gauche ( alain delon ) steal the loot for himself and almost kill link in the process . a samurai warrior and kuroda ( toshiro mifune ) set out to retrieve the sword . link join him and hop that he can catch up with his double crossing partner and exact his revenge . the film be a real mongrel of a movie . back by french and italian and spanish financers while direct by a brit while and star american and japanese and swiss lead actor and it be hardly surprising that it seem to draw it inspiration from a muddled patchwork of influence . for a while and the unusual plot threatens to develop into something really interesting . the fusion of western convention and samurai movie convention be initially intriguing too . however and pretty quickly the whole thing slip into overly familiar cliche and it be barely help by somewhat tedious pacing and support actor with such heavy accent that it be hard to tell what they be say much of the time . red sun could have be perhaps should have be a good movie and but what it emerge a be and unfortunately and rather a waste of a good idea .