Widescreen, Big Ideas: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa
When Akira Kurosawa made the conversion to a wider screen, he did so by making six consecutive films in widescreen, with a degree of success as resounding as it was influential.
Yojimbo
Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Yojimbo’ Is All Quite Amusing
Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo is funny: Sanjura’s twitchy, itchy tics; Inokichi’s monobrowed buffoonery; Kannuki the Giant’s huge mallet. Even the dog carrying the human hand betrays that the film’s tone will be blackly comedic.
The Blackened Eyes of the Movie Men With No Name
Akira Kurosawa’s samurai, Stuart Heisler’s gangster, Sergio Leone’s cowboy, and George Miller’s misfit suffer a similar black eye, but with dramatically different effect.