[Watched/Reviewed on Letterboxd 4/23/2021]

"Hidden Fortress" is a little like "Yes, Madam!" The sense that the headline stars (reviews spent so much time hyping up) with the traditional straight-man roles, are sort've secondary to a tale of a comedic odd couple. The pair who fumble their way through circumstances grander than them.

I can definitely see the influence it had on "Star Wars", and with this in hindsight, George Lucas's film feels like a dilution of Hidden Fortress's less flashy approach to storytelling.