Laughing Time Is Over.
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Kurosawa’s own hand-painted watercolour storyboards for Kagemusha (1980) painted in exuberant detail during the lengthy development hell on the project to “keep him sane”. Many of these paintings are in the personal collections of Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, who helped fund and executive produced the late-era Kurosawa masterpiece.
Below the image is a comparison shot of the same scene in the final film. A great attention to detail and consistency can be seen between Kurosawa’s vision and execution.