Last Man Standing is a 1996 American neo-Western action film written, produced and directed by Walter Hill and starring Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken and Bruce Dern. It is a remake of the 1961 Japanese film Yojimbo by Akira Kurosawa, relocated to the Prohibition-era American South. In the film, a mysterious gunman (Willis) arrives in a small Texas town ruled by warring bootlegger gangs and sets about playing them against each other. The film was released by New Line Cinema on September 20, 1996.