At 12:59 PM 1/1/97 -1000, Mousse Lee wrote:

	Sorry if anyone thinks this is a bit offtrack but George Lucas had
strong influences by Japanese film (Akira Kurosawa). 

Yeah, and Lucas will even admit the Kurosawa influence.  I belive "The Seven
Samurai" (remade by Hollywood into, among others, "The Magnificent Seven")
and the Samurai Trilogy starring Toshiro Mifune were among the major ones.
(Was it Lucas, Speilberg, or both who presented Kurosawa with his honorary
Oscar a few years back?)


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