Kurosawa, In Order #4 – The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail
THE MEN WHO TREAD ON THE TIGER’S TAIL (1945) As World War II was dragging to an end, Kurosawa wanted to make his next movie, a samurai epic, which the Allied bombing campaign was making impossible. A studio film with many sets or other lavish production values was out of the question. In a stroke …