Watching #Kurosawa's #HiddenFortress with 9-year-old #StarWars fan. May regret this....

Look, there goes 3P0 climbing the dune... #HiddenFortress

Toshiro Mifune is, according to 9-yr old, "totally cool." #HiddenFortress

Back to #HiddenFortress! "Hide a stone among stones; hide a man among men."

Sword v. Lance on horseback? Wow. #HiddenFortress

Now explaining to 9-yr old how spear and bow used to be more common weapons than the sword... #HiddenFortress

Does Kurosawa have a scene in which someone sings in every period movie? #HiddenFortress

Oh, there's the turning of Darth Vader. #HiddenFortress #WholeTrilogyInOne

Done with #HiddenFortress. Great flick! Oh, look. "Last Samurai" is on! null #OMDB

Another possible movie for next semester: #TwilightSamurai Not watching this one with 9-yr old.

Samurai bureaucrats! I like it already. #TwilightSamurai

Samurai money troubles! #TwilightSamurai

Famine, shishi ronin and firearms practice! #TwilightSamurai How come nobody told me about this film before?

Country pantomime and class divisions! #TwilightSamurai

Succession problems? #TwilightSamurai

Staggering out of a palanquin! #TwilightSamurai

Disassembling the sword in preparation for sharpening, cleaning. #TwilightSamurai #SpoilersAheadProbably

That's gotta hurt. #TwilightSamurai

Nice shot of Fuji, and a modern rickshaw. #TwilightSamurai

Could have done without the really sappy modern song over the closing credits. #TwilightSamurai

I'm a fan. #TwilightSamurai

Tonight's Movie I'm screening as possible classroom material? #Yojimbo. I've seen at least part of it before, and I've seen the remakes....

Weird Fact: There's actually a guy named "Rashomon" in the cast list for #Yojimbo.

One thing about Kurosawa: he was never afraid of his material. Yeah, that was a hand the dog was carrying. #Yojimbo

I love the music. The mix of drama and absurdity is going to be hard to sustain, though. #Yojimbo