10 Movies That Had An Insane Amount Of Attention To Detail
2. Every Akira Kurosawa Film Is FIlled With Incredible Detail
If there was anyone who could out-Kubrick Stanley Kubrick, it's probably Akira Kurosawa. Each and every one of Kurosawa's films had such an exquisite level of detail that even OCD people would say he had OCD. Just look at what he did for some of his most famous films:
Rashomon: In order to get the rain to look right on camera, Kurosawa dyed a town's entire water supply black.
Seven Samurai: Kurosawa wrote detailed notebook upon notebook about each of the seven Samurai, right down to the tiniest of deails of each character such as their speaking patterns, family trees, and the way they wore their shoes.
Throne of Blood: Real arrows were shot at the lead actor in order to properly generate realistic expressions of fear.
Red Beard: In order to get an authentic aged look for some tea cups, Kurosawa had his crew pour over fifty years of tea into them. He also insisted that the period hospital be constructed accurately, right down to the medicine in the drawers, despite them never being seen or referred to on-screen.
Ran: Kurosawa had a real castle built on the slopes of Mt. Fuji before burning it to the ground just for the climatic scene.
So really, Kurosawa was not so much into having his actors pretending as he was into making everyone that everything on set was actually real.