Have you ever watched a Star Wars movie and noticed how they change scenes by pulling an invisible line across the screen? (Don't worry, we've got a little montage from Return of the Jedi and The Phantom Menace to remind you ). That's called a wipe cut, and George Lucas loves it. So does George Miller, who puts it all over The Road Warrior like a bad rash. One guess who they got that from. (Source)

Actors Sybil Danning and Robert Vaughn both made two versions of Seven Samurai in their careers. Both appeared in the unbelievably goofy Battle Beyond the Stars, while Vaughn also showed up in the much-more-respectable The Magnificent Seven and Danning got to flash her scanty toga in The Seven Magnificent Gladiators

It took 60 years, but actor Toshiro Mifune (who plays Kikuchiyo and appeared in 15 other Akira Kurosawa movies) finally gets his due in Tinseltown in 2016. Hollywood is giving him a star on the Walk of Fame, the same year as American stars like Kurt Russell and Michael Keaton. Mifune's only the second Japanese actor to receive such an honor (third if you count Godzilla), and even Kurosawa is still waiting for his. (Source)

Kurosawa used either Toshiro Mifune or Takashi Shimura, or both, in every movie he made during a span of 18 years. If you've got a great thing, stick with it. (Source)