... 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 Japanese components, while exploring truth and perception simultaneously. Other films such as Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky and ... ...

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... sweep of Hidden Fortress, an award-winning film that inspired George Lucas to steal the plot for Star Wars. His love of literature also showed in two excellent versions of Shakespeare (Macbeth in Throne of Blood and King Lear in Ran) and versions of Gorky's The Lower Depths and The Idiot by Dostoevsky. Although Kurosawa sometimes turned his attention to other themes ... ...

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