A titan of Japanese cinema, Kurosawa was heavily influenced by western literature and movies.
Cineaste: You, Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bergman all started making films around the same time.
A Soviet-Japanese co-production, the Oscar and Golden Globe-winning film was
directed by Japanese luminary, Akira Kurosawa.
Lucas was a huge fan of Kurosawa's work, with elements from it being heavily borrowed in Star Wars.
When developing the Star Wars movies,
he was hugely influenced from the work of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, among others.
And the winning film, Seven Samurai,
by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, was loved by critics everywhere-
everywhere, that is, except for Japan.
It's also one
of the biggest names in Japanese film, period, with a hand in a massive number of successful productions both past and present, everything from Kurosawa to Pokemon.