His influence has even reached as far as the gaming industry through Sucker Punch Production’s latest highly-anticipated game Ghost of Tsushima. By combining his experience of both worlds, Kurosawa created films which bridged the gap between both Hollywood’s and Japan’s style of storytelling. Despite embracing this change during his adolescence, he never abandoned ‘the Bushido code’ and the traditions passed on by his samurai father. Growing up in Japan during the mid 1900s, Kurosawa was exposed to the country’s transition towards western ideals.
For instance, the character of Princess Leia was inspired by Princess Yuki, and details such as the wipe transition and the consistent use of landscape shots are how George Lucas took inspiration from Kurosawa’s style and grew the films into the mega franchise that is Star Wars today. Many aspects of films in the Star Wars saga have stemmed from Kurosawa’s grand-scale adventure The Hidden Fortress. These characteristics have been carried through film for decades, evolving into the idea of the ‘sole’ hero we see often in many modern action films. Yojimbo and Sanjuro in particular were responsible for the idea of the lone gunslinger used in many westerns, originating from the solitary samurai. George Lucas and Sergio Leone attribute Kurosawa’s work as being the inspiration behind the Star Wars films as well as the widely acclaimed Dollars Trilogy, and John Sturge’s The Magnificent Seven is based on Kurosawa’s ground-breaking epic Seven Samurai.
George Lucas showing legendary director Akira Kurosawa details on a Snowspeeder
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Kurosawa defined the Samurai genre for Hollywood and taught audiences about the bushido code and the samurai way of life. Kurosawa directed classics such as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, regularly collaborating with acting legend Toshiro Mifune. Our Young Programmer Ricardo looks into the work of the father of modern Japanese film, Akira Kurosawa, and how his legacy lives on.īorn in Tokyo 1910, Akira Kurosawa is considered as being the father of the modern Japanese film industry and one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
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