For 10 points, name this Japanese director of the Seven Samurai and Rashomon.
In one work by this man, the central character sits in a burning castle and inexplicably survives an onslaught of arrows and gunfire, after which he proceeds to walk outside and leave in the face of the besieging army. This man would later inspire American Westerns by directing a film that starring Toshiro Mifune. This director of Throne of Blood and Yojimbo also directed a movie involving four different accounts of a murder being retold by a man waiting under the title gate. For 10 points, name this Japanese director of the Seven Samurai and Rashomon.
In one work by this man, the central character sits in a burning castle and inexplicably survives an onslaught of arrows and gunfire, after which he proceeds to walk outside and leave in the face of the besieging army.
Akira {Kurosawa}