... told the story with new elements. This was not the only factor that proliferated his films in to Western cinema, his films often featured Western components and literature; such films as Throne of Blood and Ran features the story of Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear, essentially Kurosawa created versions of the Western classics with ... by his own men that shot arrows at him; Kurosawa requested his archers to shoot real arrows, only to be hollowed out with wires of around ten feet running along it, while Mifune ran upon chalk marks carefully placed to avoid being hit. Even though ther...

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