DominicCobb said:

Ew, dubs.

I support dubs.

No matter what, if the film isn't your language, you're going to lose something.

Subtitles means your eyes are going to constantly NOT be on the picture. This fundamentally changes the vieweing experience, especially for films as gorgeous as Kurosawa's.

Dubs are equally flawed, but in a different way. I'd rather not be distracted from the image when watching an epic, visually stunning Kurosawa movie.

For something like Ingmar Berman, I'll take the subtitltes, because there's so little speaking in something like "Persona."

But both are still a compromise.