There are dreamlike scenes, or, at any rate, scenes of make-believe, in several Kurosawa films.

This is why many Kurosawa films, though quite long (the original "Seven Samurai" was 208 minutes), never seem long.

When you look at a Kurosawa film, you know exactly who are the good guys and who are the bad.

(It would not be released until 1952, the year another Kurosawa film, Ikiru, was also released.)

He is most concerned with the flowing quality which a film must have ... The Kurosawa film flows over the cut, as it were.

He appeared in three more Kurosawa films, including Yojimbo, but only in minor roles.

And at that moment the title 'costume designer' first came to existence on a Kurosawa film.

The Spaghetti Western genre was a direct outgrowth of the Kurosawa films.

Star Wars also borrows heavily from another Kurosawa film, Yojimbo.

Perhaps that's why the Kurosawa films released thus far on DVD have primarily been his samurai features.