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Nothing , IMHO , he was just coasting on the work of other people . Beyond being billed as a " samurai western , " East Meets West represents multiple efforts to join the opposite ends of the map - - the Japanese director , his staff and cast combined with an American cast and crew to film largely on location in the United States the tale of the first Japanese mission to the United States in 1860 , just at the time the Pony Express was joining the West Coast with the East . Alexander Harrison and John Rockwell would leave in 1854 for home , never to return to the West Coast with the Coast Survey . These included 4 small events located near the coast in the Cape Mendocino area , 3 others located onshore near Petrolia and 2 small earthquakes located along the northern portion of the San Andreas fault north of Fort Bragg . A lot of them on the coast for any Homeland Security issues . Fossil foraminifera were being curated in museum collections and monographed in Vienna as long ago as the late eighteenth century , but it was decades before they were employed in the analysis of strata in the search for water and petroleum ( in the Hapsburg Empire , as it happened ) ; and credit for the first publication to bring applied micropalaeontology to the forefront in petroleum exploration and development is given to a study in the Gulf Coast in the United States as late as 1925 . The plan to create a migratory flock of whoopers in the eastern United States will be to introduce the birds to their trainers in Wisconsin this summer , then coax them with an ultra-light plane to the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Refuge in Florida , and island near the coast in the Gulf of Mexico . Farther to the east , many historians believe that Pomors ( Russians from the town of Novgorod ) first began to appear in the far north along the coast of the White Sea at the beginning of the 12th century , and along the Murmansk coast in the middle of the 13th century . The centrality of the Nigerian coast in the North Atlantic slave trade is evident in the continuing influence of West African culture in the Caribbean and North America . In recent years , the Bond series has grown bloated and decadent and - - yes - - dull , coasting on the nostalgia we all share during those first 15 minutes , when the twangy machine-gun guitar chords come rippling over the image of 007 firing his weapon at the audience , followed by the inevitable action sequence that 's so elaborately kicked-up it 's a mad logistical joke - - and nothing more than a joke . Sometimes , drifting sea ice ( pack ice ) can be seen moving past the coast while the landfast ice remains stationary .