I've only seen a couple of his samurai movies (Yojimbo and Seven Samurai) so I can't really speak to his other movies. The two I've seen, though, were not cracktastic like that.
Oh, a quick read of the Wikipedia article on it indicates this was Kurosawa's last movie and it was based on the life of an actual person. A person who was apparently crazy? *shrug*
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Oh, a quick read of the Wikipedia article on it indicates this was Kurosawa's last movie and it was based on the life of an actual person. A person who was apparently crazy? *shrug*