Sarah Jilani

So the techniques weren't devised by him alone.

John Ford and others were doing the same thing.

Akira Kurosawa learned by watching films made by his peers.

So in the scenes where horses gallop, it wasn't filmed in slow motion, but rather at high speed.

I think that important thing is not so much whether he devised the techniques, but whether he used those techniques effectively.

Kurosawa also shoots with multiple cameras, so you, the audience, are inserted right into the middle of the action, a revolutionary method of filming.

Critics point to the climactic fight between the samurai and bandits as an example.

I don't think it had been used before.

Most of the second half of the film was shot with three cameras.

Another way of looking at it is, when filming a long scene, if it is done using three cameras, it is very easy to piece together in an edit.

This is the 1972 TV documentary again.

But whilst Seven Samurai is later hailed by many film critics as reinventing world cinema, Hiso doesn't think it's a consideration for his father in 1954.

Films are not made based on something like that.

How can filmmakers, painters, authors work create something that resonates in people's hearts if they are focused on reinvention?

Artists should concern themselves with how to make a great artistic work and how to please the people that go to see it.

We are not talking about reinventing.

We are talking about how to create a good work of art.

Seven Samurai wins the Silver Lion for direction at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.

It is remade by Hollywood as a western, The Magnificent Seven, in 1960.

It influences other directors and movies over the next few decades.