One of the things I rather like about some of these movie (especially the samurai ones), he tends to use actors that can actually fight/fence for his fighters.
Did you lot ever look at the fencing techniques in Highlander?
They're attrocious!
Same goes for most things that came out of hollywood (and europe, but they usually contained less action by far) for years and years, until somewhere in the 90' I think, and even after that it was not a garanteed thing.
But most of kurosawa's fighters actually know what they're doing (atleast if they're supposed to), which is really nice if you know enough martial arts to notice.
And I do suspect that one of the guys in the Seven Samurai is using the same ryu that I'm practicing.
