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Kurosawa's editing style.
I watch Kurosawa films on video, and his editing always impresses me. The way Kurosawa edit[ed] ... he develop[ed] everything he shot that day and edit[ed]. If he [found] shots he [was] missing or need[ed], he [re-shot] or [shot] additional shots the next day. He edit[ed] as he [shot]. Hollywood would never allow such a thing. That's one reason, I think, Kurosawa was never able to work in Hollywood. When what he took pains to create [became] imprisoned on the film, he [gave] it new life and destiny by his editing. So RAN doesn't feel like a film of a 70-year-old man. There's this wonderful three-dimensional quality that he create[d] through the use of cutbacks. The rhythm of the cutbacks ... the two masters were John Ford and Kurosawa.
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