DVD Thoughts: The Hidden Fortress

With new time opened up, I thought it about right to get around to watching the Star Wars movies again (once a year or so seems not too much for me), but before getting started on that I did remember something I'd had the mere potential of for a while now. Among the first movies I managed to record on a DVD off of Turner Classic Movies was Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, and of course I remembered all the tales of how Star Wars had started out as an adaptation of that specific movie transposed into space...
( From the expected to the unexpected )