To be fair, SkyJedi, Hidden Fortress was popular entertainment, too. Kurosawa made a lot of personal films, like Ikiru and Rashomon, but he had to sedate his financial backers by occassionally making a mass-audience mainstream hit. Hidden Fortress is the most blatantly popular of all his films. It was designed to be commercial. It's also probably why Star Wars was so suited to adapt it.
Post #363181
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- zombie84
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- Star Wars/Hidden Fortress
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- 2-Jun-2009, 5:30 PM