I agree that Star Wars is a blatant 'rip-off' (or westernisation for a euphemism) but from Empire Strikes Back onwards including the prequels that's all Lucas' vision, Kurosawa did not create characters that can be directly paralleled to all of those in Star Wars.
I'm not bashing Kurosawa, as you can see through my past posts I praise the dirt he walked on, Seven Samurai still stands to me as the best film ever made, end of story.
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