1. Director's Research - Akira Kurosawa
... Yishiro Muraki. During the construction of "third castle ", Kurosawa ordered the castle's stone blocks to be painted as Styrofoam blocks based off the photographs he took of actual stones; Kurosawa then ordered the stones to be glued to the castle wall, also known as the "rough-stone piling " process. This enabled great amounts of details when shooting the castle, ultimately creating the ... attack and set on fire. To prevent the melting of the Styrofoam, Kurosawa requested the art department to coat the surface with four extra layers of cement, painted with ancient stones on the surfac...
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