Spaghetti changed into macaroni in Japan

A big movie star and one of the greatest movie directors, Clint Eastwood, was made famous by playing the lead in “The Dollars Trilogy” directed by Sergio Leone.

“The Dollars Trilogy” was made up of the films “A Fistful of Dollars”, “For a Few Dollars More” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. Their scores by Ennio Morricone are also famous. Those Western films made in Italy during the 60’s to early 70’s are called “Spaghetti Westerns” in U.S., UK and Italy, but in Japan we call them “Macaroni Westerns”.

Mr. Nagaharu Yodogawa, a famous film critic in Japan, named them “Macaroni Westerns”. He changed the name because spaghetti seemed to be thin and to be poor. According to the Wikipedia, there is also a theory that the movies had no contents, much like macaroni has no contents.

                                                                                  Mr. Nagaharu Yodogawa




If they were made in Japan, would they be called “Sushi westerns”? How about in other countries?: “Curry Westerns”, “Kimchi Westerns”, “Taco Westerns” and “Paella Westerns”.

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It is fun to imagine each country’s case to me.