I went through a stage when i rented all of Kurosawas movies .
Not only was “The Magnificent Seven” based on his movies, but a lot of the “Spaghetti Westerns” were as well.
Clint Eastwood and and Toshiro Mifune were similar in many ways. :-0
“A Fistful of Dollars” was basically taken right from Yojimbo. “Ran” is basically Kurosawa’s version of King Lear, and is fantastic as well.