Toward this end, in his movie Red Beard, Kurosawa had the hospital set fully stocked with medical supplies even the drawers and cupboards, which, despite never being opened on camera or even mentioned by the characters, were nonetheless expensively, thoroughly, authentically stocked with pills. Kurosawa once dyed an entire towns water supply black just so the rain would look better on camera. If you were featured in one of Kurosawas movies, you could expect to shoot inside the real, period-appropriate houses hed have built, wear the real, period-appropriate clothing (that you were expected to live in even while not actively filming) and memorize the complete dossier on your characters back story, even if you only had a couple of lines. Oh, and you should also be prepared to get shot at with real arrows.
