Akira Kurosawa

What makes a Akira Kurosawa film a Akira Kurosawa film

Across 13 films, they run somewhat more beauty, somewhat less romance and somewhat more cerebral than films in general. Their films vary about as much as any director’s do, so this is an average rather than a template.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.