Facts about the film's reception, in Japan and elsewhere, are taken from the two major books about the director, Donald Richie's The Films of Akira Kurosawa and Stuart Galbraith's The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.
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