![]() Crafting a film set in the distant past essentially creates a timeless bubble that could reflect present-day society and issues through historical lenses, providing context to the modern human condition and sometimes harrowing warnings of how much things had not changed despite illusions of progress. But some of Kurosawa’s most immediate commentary on modern-day Japan can be spotted in his works that are set in contemporary times rather than the medieval past, and those films are where we can see Kurosawa’s treasured values the clearest.Ĭertainly I am not trying to downplay the magnitude of artistic and civic merits that his period films have, rather those films have some of his most substantial contributions to cinema. And The Hidden Fortress (1958) inspired George Lucas to create an entire universe with Star Wars, which practically takes inspiration from the Samurai Chanbara genre as a whole as well. ![]() Seven Samurai (1954) went on to become The Magnificent Seven (1960). He is cited as one of the authors to the western genre with his Yojimbo (1961) starring Toshiro Mifune that went on to inspire Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name trilogy starring Clint Eastwood. Akira Kurosawa’s Jidaigeki (era drama) and Samurai films repertoire is certainly impressive, and it’s arguably the reason why he is such a household name in general film discussion. ![]()
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