Akira Kurosawa - Composing Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8
I enjoyed Dersu Uzala immensely and recommend it.
THE SEVEN SAMURAI will never be surpassed.
American films were generally that way under the Hays Code which stipulated the antagonists in a film had to reap the consequences of their bad actions, either being killed, caught, or at a minimum, undergoing repentance and atonement.
One criticism of Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart's, "It's A Wonderful Life," is that it was in violation of this element of the code, in that Mr. Potter never faced repercussions for his greed and theft of George Bailey's money.
Kurosawa was the Japanese John Ford.
Because of the indelible images on his movies, Americans see the Old West through the eyes of John Ford (who, ironically, was mimicking the imagery of Frederick Remington). By the same token, the world sees Medieval Japan through the eyes of Akira Kurosawa.