YMMV / The Hidden Fortress

• Awesome Music: The score by Kurosawa's regular composer Masaru Satō.
• Common Knowledge: The film's inspiration for Star Wars has been quite overblown, until most people who haven't seen it get the impression that A New Hope simply transplanted its whole story into a science fiction setting. In fact, its major inspiration was simply the concept of telling an epic war story from the viewpoint of two nobodies wandering through it (plus a shot of Leia in the same sleeping pose as the princess here).
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The film was much more successful outside Japan than inside of it. In fact, the film is more well-known by Western audiences as one of the major influences of Star Wars (especially A New Hope and The Phantom Menace).
• Love to Hate: The peasants, who are horrible people but very entertaining.
• Moral Event Horizon: Tahei and Matashichi agreeing to rape Princess Yuki. Even worse, it's never brought up again, because they are distracted by a procession, and they are sent off with a bar of gold.

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