"Coraline" director Henry Selick's favorite Kurosawa film

"As for my influences, of course there's Harryhausen, Fellini, Kurosawa Akira... 'Ran' is especially great. I like the character that Harada Mieko plays with the shaven eyebrows. It's an incredibly powerful image."

From an interview in the April 2010 issue of Eiga Hiho magazine.