Any homages to The Glass Key in Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, or The Last Man Standing?

I finally got a copy of The Glass Key and watched it. It is a good movie, and more to the point a good murder mystery.

The information I had read online (including apparently information from Kurosawa himself) at multiple different sources put The Glass Key at the beginning of chain of movies I listed in the question. I can see where Kurosawa would have seen inspiration in this movie, but honestly it doesn't appear that Yojimbo is an adaptation of The Glass Key.

For one, the central plot in Yojimbo, and subsequently A Fistful of Dollars and Last Man Standing, turns out to only be a minor plot device in The Glass Key. That being the concept of one man in the middle, playing both sides against each other. Although there is a build up to a scene like this in The Glass Key, it is just that... one scene. It also doesn't work out the same, both in the work up to it, and the way it plays out. The Main character starts off the movie loyal to the Boss of one side (in the two sides in this movie). He makes a partially public break from his Boss, gets the head of the other side to offer a large pay off and start to give him information... but the plot similarity seems to end there. He doesn't take the money, and... well... read on.

Now... the scene immediately following takes place in a warehouse apparently. There appears to be the makings of a still in the background of the room, and the main character is beaten badly by thugs in this room. He distracts his captors and escapes... and it seems that all three subsequent movies all use this scene in the movie, albeit loosely. However the specifics of the opening of this scene, and the contents of this scene appear to be a nod from Yojimbo to The Glass Key.

Here is the main character in The Glass Key, getting up after being beaten before the scene begins. We don't see the initial beating, we only get to watch some more of it in the scene itself. The still can be seen in the background. His captors, a large thug who does all the beating, and a small thug who seems to provide comments, are playing a game of cards while they "watch" the main character. Immediately after that screenshot, he crawls across the floor and attempts to get out of the door, but is picked up by the large thug, carried back to the bed, and beaten. The little thug warns the big one not to kill him, and the big one shrugs it off, talking about how tough the main character is. During the scene he is beaten more, but his captors get no further information out of him.

Here is the main character in Yojimbo, waking up after a beating, in a storeroom of a brewery. His captors, a big thug and a small one are playing a game to pass the time. Our main character crawls across the floor and attempts to get out. The big thug almost lifts him by his head, and actually throws him across the room away from the door. The little thug warns the big one not to kill him, while the big one shrugs it off pointing out that he is fine because he is "groaning". The scene cuts soon after.

The similarities of these two scenes down to the actors, their actions and the rest of the scene content, are so close in the way they play out that it can only have been done on purpose by Kurosawa as a tip of the hat or an homage to Stuart Heisler and The Glass Key

I'll have to watch The Glass Key a few more times to see if there are any more scenes like this one, but like I said, the main plot of the movie is very different from Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, and Last Man Standing. With such a large difference, the contents of all the other scenes in the movie play out quite differently.