>(You'd think that I, as a former film student, would care more about
>the film, wouldn't you? Perhaps if Kurosawa had directed "Star Wars"... ;)
As Dana pointed out; he did, and he did it first. Lucas has said that
the biggest inspiration for Star Wars was Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress".
later,
AaronB
(whose fave film of all time is Kurosawa's "Ran")
np: Bourgeois Tagg - Yoyo