That final half is the place issues actually begin to get attention-grabbing. A 12 months previous to the discharge of “The Fool,” Kurosawa launched “Rashomon” with Daiei, a subversive thriller drama advised from a number of totally different views. It obtained constructive opinions in Japan, however so far as the director knew, that was actually its solely market. Because it seems, nevertheless, destiny labored in a really mysterious means, as detailed within the aforementioned autobiography:

“I arrived house depressed, with barely sufficient power to slip open the door to the entry. All of a sudden, my spouse got here bounding out. ‘Congratulations!’ I used to be unwittingly indignant: ‘For what?’ ”Rashomon’ has the Grand Prix.’ ‘Rashomon’ had received the Grand Prix on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant, and I used to be spared from having to eat chilly rice.”

The worldwide recognition of “Rashomon” instantly eclipsed any fallout from “The Fool.” It went on to win the Academy Award for Finest Worldwide Function, and simply a few years later, allowed Kurosawa to launch his controversial opus, “Seven Samurai,” internationally. If its Rotten Tomatoes web page is something to go by, then “The Fool” additionally ended up getting a cultural reevaluation as an bold experiment. Regardless of this, he nonetheless credit the preliminary flop for educating him an essential lesson in filmmaking.

“On pondering it over, I suppose that any director ought no less than as soon as to have been roundly attacked and embarrassed,” he reminisced in an excerpt from “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews.” “One must be courageous sufficient to danger this type of ‘mistake.’ These days, nobody does.”