During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

* The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 )

George Lucas is famous for the sweeping use of wipes in his Star Wars films, which help evoke a kinship to old pulp science fiction novels and serials ; he was inspired by a similar use of wipes by Akira Kurosawa ( as can be seen in The Hidden Fortress ).

Japanese cinema reached its zenith with films from director Akira Kurosawa including Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and The Hidden Fortress.

The character is loosely inspired by General Makabe Rokurōta, a character from The Hidden Fortress played by Toshirō Mifune, whom series creator George Lucas also considered casting as Obi-Wan.

* The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 )

George Lucas's creation of R2-D2 was influenced by Akira Kurosawa's 1958 feature film The Hidden Fortress ( USA release 1962 ), particularly Tahei and Matakishi, the two comic relief characters that serve as sidekicks to General Makabe.

These include Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, High and Low, Throne of Blood ( an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth ), Yojimbo, and Sanjuro.

* 1958 The Hidden Fortress

The storyline " The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy " includes elements reminiscent of the classic Akira Kurosawa films The Seven Samurai and The Hidden Fortress, particularly the way that Usagi collects various allies to raid an evil lord's fortress.

A literal translation of the Japanese title is The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress.

Hidden Fortress was originally presented with Perspecta directional sound, which was re-created for the Criterion DVD release.

In box-office terms, The Hidden Fortress was Kurosawa ’ s most successful film, until the 1961 release of Yojimbo.

Upon the film's January 1962 New York City release of a 90-minute version, Bosley Crowther wrote: " The Hidden Fortress is essentially a superficial film and that Kurosawa, for all his talent, is as prone to pot-boiling as anyone else.

Overall, there ’ s a sense of sheer " movieness " to The Hidden Fortress that places it plainly in the ranks of such grand adventure entertainments as Gunga Din, The Thief of Baghdad, and Fritz Lang's celebrated diptych The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Hindu Tomb.

Writing for The Criterion Collection in 2001, Armond White said " The Hidden Fortress holds a place in cinema history comparable to John Ford's Stagecoach: It lays out the plot and characters of an on-the-road epic of self-discovery and heroic action.

" White also said The Hidden Fortress " clearly influenced Hayao Miyazaki's anime feature Princess Mononoke.

George Lucas has acknowledged influence of The Hidden Fortress on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, particularly in the technique of telling the story from the perspective of the film's lowliest characters, C-3PO and R2-D2.

Lucas ' original plot outline for Star Wars also had a strong resemblance to the plot of The Hidden Fortress.

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* The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 )

* J Pilger, Hidden Agendas, Vintage, 1998 ( Fortress Wapping-extract )

Today he is remembered primarily for his supporting appearances in Kurosawa's films, particularly as the suspicious farmer Manzo in Seven Samurai, the deranged former mayor in Yojimbo, the spidery treasure-seeking farmer in The Hidden Fortress, and the drunken Kabuki actor in The Lower Depths.

Whilst in Baghdad, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá composed a commentary at the request of his father on the Muslim tradition of " I was a Hidden Treasure " for a Súfí leader named ` Alí Shawkat Páshá.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

It was later compiled into a DVD, New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for the West in 2004.

On August 12, 2011, it was confirmed that a new Counter Strike game was in development at Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment, which also codevelops Counter-Strike: Source, going under the title Global Offensive.

The principal B-side to the original 12-inch single was a cover version of " War ", which became the subject of an accomplished extended remix in its own right ( subtitled " Hidden ") on the single's third UK 12-inch release, where it was promoted as a double-A-side with " Carnage ".

Hidden beneath the paving around the pyramid was the tomb of Queen Hetepheres, sister-wife of Sneferu and mother of Khufu.

He was a main character in the first volume of X-Factor, and a star in flashback stories when he was a teenager in X-Men: The Hidden Years and X-Men: First Class.

In 1970, the then-Dean of Institute Relations, Benson R. Snyder, published The Hidden Curriculum, arguing that education at MIT was often slighted in favor of following a set of unwritten expectations, and that graduating with good grades was more often the product of figuring out the system rather than a solid education.

* Hidden messages within wax tablets — in ancient Greece, people wrote messages on the wood, then covered it with wax upon which an innocent covering message was written.

The final show of the tour was filmed and released as part of a DVD / CD set titled Welcome to Sunny Florida ( the set also included a studio EP titled Scarlet's Hidden Treasures, an extension of the Scarlet's Walk album ).

The result was ' A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of " Hidden Variables " I and II ' 1952.

Benson's favorite Nancy Drew story was The Hidden Staircase, the second mystery in the series.

His claim was at first understood by some of the public at the time to be merely a reference to the Gate of the Hidden Imám of Muhammad, but this understanding he publicly disclaimed.

Saiedi states the exalted identity the Báb was claiming was unmistakable, but due to the reception of the people, his writings appear to convey the impression that he is only the gate to the Hidden Twelfth Imam.

To his circle of early believers, the Báb was equivocal about his exact status, gradually confiding in them that he was not merely a gate to the Hidden Imam, but the Manifestation of the Hidden Imam and the Qa ' im himself.

The U. S. received a special version of this release ( Amarantine – Deluxe Collector's Edition ), which also included three postcards and a copy of Roma Ryan's book Water Shows the Hidden Heart, which is referenced on the original album.

* Hidden messages on messenger's body — also used in ancient Greece.

At that time, acting as the Qá ' im ( He who will arise ), also known as the Mahdi ( He who is rightly guided ), the Hidden Imam would start a holy war against evil, would defeat the unbelievers, and would start a reign of justice.

See also Revelation X: The ' Bob ' Apocryphon: Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J. R. " Bob " Dobbs, ISBN 0-671-77006-3

The district also serves the nearby cities of Agoura Hills, Bell Canyon, and Hidden Hills.

A second version of the mansion also becomes playable, called the " Hidden Mansion ".

Lumpkin County is also home to several private schools including Hidden Lake Academy.

Inside the cave is a large, fast-flowing river, and the cave itself is also known as Hidden River Cave.

Mirima National Park also commonly known as Hidden Valley National Park is a National Park in far northern Western Australia located at the eastern side of the Kimberley region.

In addition to the town center, Haddam Center, the town also includes five villages, including Haddam Neck, Hidden Lake, Higganum, Shailerville, and Tylerville.

*" Hidden Daughter " Visits Kim Jong-il Every Year ( also includes photos of Kim during his youth )

The Amduat ( literally " That Which Is In the Afterworld ", also translated as " Text of the Hidden Chamber Which is in the Underworld " and " Book of What is in the Underworld ") is an important Ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom.

Close readings of major poems appear in David Lee Rubin, High Hidden Order: Design and Meaning in the Odes of Malherbe ( 1972 ), revisited in the appendix to the same author's The Knot of Artifice: A Poetic of the French Lyric in the Early 17th Century ( 1981 ); also see Chapter 1.

The Alter did not author any books or essays personally, but some of his ethical discourses were published under the name Ohr HaTzafun-" The Hidden Light ", ( also meaning " The Light of the Hidden ( One )").

English Canada also has many smaller publishing houses, including Coach House Press, the Porcupine's Quill, House of Anansi, Key Porter Books, Hidden Brook Press, and Douglas & McIntyre.

The city is also home to the al-Askari Mosque, containing the mausoleums of the Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the tenth and eleventh Shia Imams, respectively, as well as the shrine of Muhammad al-Mahdi, known as the " Hidden Imam ", who is the twelfth and final Imam of the Shia of the Ja ' farī Madhhab.

The Obsessed is a doom metal band from Maryland led by Scott " Wino " Weinrich, who also fronted Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls, The Hidden Hand and W. I. N. O ..

There were also complaints that the fight scenes were not as well choreographed or directed as those in similar movies such as The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and also that the alternating comedic and action scenes were jarring.

At that time, his father Mike was an assistant pro at Edgmont Country Club and later also spent time as a pro at West Chester Golf and Country Club as well as Hidden Springs Golf Course in Horsham.