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Who helped Coppola persuade Fox to fund Kagemusha?
Answer: George Lucas
Why: In return, Fox got the film's international rights, and both directors were credited as its international executive producers.
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Who appeared in the most Kurosawa films?
Answer: Takashi Shimura
Why: Toshiro Mifune made 16 films with him, but Shimura's 21 stretched from the 1943 debut all the way to Kagemusha in 1980.
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How many costumes were handmade for Ran's extras?
Answer: 1,400
Why: That handmade wardrobe went on to win Emi Wada the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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What do Seven Samurai's farmers pay the samurai with?
Answer: Food
Why: The villagers hand their white rice to the samurai while they themselves live on millet.
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Who is the Hollywood star in Rhapsody in August?
Answer: Richard Gere
Why: He plays Clark, the nephew of an elderly woman whose husband was killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
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Which Akutagawa story gives Rashomon its witness accounts?
Answer: In a Grove
Why: Akutagawa's story Rashōmon lent the film only its title and the framing scenes at the ruined gate.
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