Are those shorts for real?
Anyone know if the shorts that Yuki Hime and Rokurota Makabe wore are accurate period costume?
Since it's Akira Kurosawa they most definitely are. He was very meticulous with his accuracy. In Throne of Blood, the castle they built was made with iron nails. Kurosawa noticed that and stated that it had to be re-built with wooden nails because iron would not have been used during that period in Japanese history. On film, there would be no way of knowing, but Kurosawa would have known.
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On film, there would be no way of knowing, but Kurosawa would have known.
That sounds weird and overindulgent, but getting accuracy perfect is really an excellent way of keeping actors in character. John Ford was also well known for having his actors live like people from the Old West when making a movie. share
It is pretty overindulgent but Kurosawa was a perfectionist in every sense of the word. I know that in his samurai movies, he always had his actors wear EXACTLY what the people of the sengoku era would wear, even the clothes that wouldn't even be shown on film. I guess this is so the actors would understand a little more of what it felt to be in that era. Also, I heard from somebody else that he was supposed to direct the Japanese version of Tora! Tora! Tora! but was pulled because they feared he would run the budget way too high. Apparently, (in one case) he needed the exact model of the pen they used back in WWII to put in a Japanese General's pocket (which costs A LOT more than any normal pen). On film, you would barely be able to tell but Kurosawa was meticulous like that.
shareI agree it sounds apocryphal.
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