Interesting you should mention that movie. We just got in in from Netflix, and are going to watch it in the next couple of days. Our daughter is 'into' Japanese stuff in a major way, anime, learning kanji, etc. and she asked last week about Kurusawa. I remembered about Ran and Samurai, so I got Samurai. I didn't look to see if it were 'restored', though if they bothered to put in DVD, it must be.