George Lucas on Akira Kurosawa

Talks about kurosawa. Makes shitty teenage films

Its seems to me to four most influential directors were kurosawa, Fellini, welles, hitchcock, and john ford

I recently saw “The Hidden Fortress” and I was able to notice many similarities with Star Wars Episode IV. You can clearly see that George Lucas took A LOT of inspiration from that film, and many other Kurosawa films to make Star Wars.
Just the opening scene of Hidden Fortress makes you remember about C-3PO and R2-D2 stranded on the dessert of Tatooine.

If police catch you illegal contraband they’ll seize the illegal contraband anything that contains the illegal contraband and arrest you!!!!!!!

The spear duel in Hidden Fortress.

"maybe hidden fortress"
class a bullshitter lol

George SWEATING trying not to bring up where he got the ideas for C3P0, R2D2, and Princess Leia (also the Ewok battle at the end of Return of the Jedi is straight out of Seven Samurai)

The legacy of filmmaking technique left by Akira Kurosawa for subsequent generations of filmmakers has been diverse and of international influence beyond his native Japan. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production.

Hidden Fortress has two of the funniest characters in film history imo, very enjoyable film

No Kurosawa = No Spaghetti westerns
No Kurosawa = No Star Wars

We understand that kurosawa was working on STAR WARS IN 1971 ..

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"you ever meet a guy and about 5 minutes into talkin you think to yourself,
" THIS GUY'S FULL OF SHIT! "

People nowadays dont realise how much of the huge billion dollar making pop culture stuff we love now, is owed to the legends of the past who's works were originally used as inspiration.

You can tell Kurosawa was a huge influence to Lucas, I mean look at Darth Vader's helmet and Samurai Armour..

Jidaigeki = Period Piece in Japanese.

Kurosawa and Kobayashi were experts at these films in the 50s and 60s.

Masaki Kobayashi most notable films were Harakiri, Kwaidan, Samurai Rebellion, and The Human Condition Trilogy.

An absolutely brilliant man, listening to him speak it’s like hypnotism, I could listen to him talk for hours

Ikiru and Rashomon to me was life change completely changed my views of the world and people. I am thankful I am no longer the negative, toxic, hateful person I was years ago there are many aspects of it in me still but it is something I am trying to improve.

imagine seeing Rashomon in cinemas, damn...

oh really?

George gets it. Films aren't just shoving in a kiss scene or explosion every two seconds. They're the highest of all art forms, each frame a representation of an idea, poetry in motion

Kurosawa is the key to all of this.

Without kurosawa, there would be no blockbusters

landed here, after watching star wars: vision trailer and knowing that george was influenced by akira kurosawa

with Star Wars Visions, we've come to a full circle.

John Milius was a genius.

I think the movie Ran 1985 was best, man so artistic.

S/o Modesto California’s finest

I wonder if Star Wars would be half as good without Kurosawa's influence.

"Maybe Hidden Fortress, not really top of my list but I like it." Proceeds to make an entire universe inspired by it

Lucas and Spielberg should stop slaughtering the word "Ikiru". XD

the way George Lucas trims his beard at his jawline isn't doing him any favors 😬

Korusawa never edited; then re-released, a movie in which Sanjuro “cut second”.

The visuals and the sound is amazing, the stories...bit whimsical. I think if you take Mel Gibson's story telling and combine them with the visuals and sounds of kurosawa you would end up with a very good movie. Main issue with kurosawa I think is that he drags out on unimportant story points. The pacing is too slow.

Samurai's hate sand.....

George Lucas, lose some weight.

Starwars was inspired by kurosawa movies

Akira Kurosawa and Andrei Tarkovsky are two of the major influences in world cinema.

I just watched Dreams a few days ago and it was a beautiful film

Este é o comentário brasileiro que procurava🇧🇷, Akira Kurosawa tem um trabalho belo e revolucionário para a época. Tenho 17 anos e meu primeiro filme dele foi Os sete samurais.

"George Lucas on Akira Kurosawa" is like "Britney Spears on Mozart".

I’m always impressed at how humble and normal George Lucas always seems

Now this is podracing!

People wouldn't spit ignorance about Lucas and starwars if they actually cared to understand his relationship with film. His theories and inspirations. Lucas is a visual director for most, he was always a believer in imagery driven story telling rather than oral story telling. He made films without dialog. So he is not a good dialog writer as people point out as if it's a sin. Lucas never strived to be a strong writer because to him that's not the essence of visual story telling.

Asking this palooka what he thinks of Kurosawa is like asking Ms McGillacuddy, the award-winning third grade teacher, what she thinks of Einstein.

I'll mention hidden fortress last since that's the movie I copied to make my vast fortune.

I'm also here cuz of clone wars season two episode 17 bounty hunter

Tosche station → Toshi stastion → Toshiro Mifune

Coruscant → Korusant → Kuro-san → Akira Kurosawa