There’s hardly a limit to the number of masterpieces filmmaking legend Akira Kurosawa has in his expansive oeuvre, but even his mistakes only further served to reveal his cinematic genius, evident in 1962’s Sanjuro when he accidentally invented the blood geyser! For horror fans, A Nightmare on Elm Street is probably the best example of a literal blood geyser, seen when Johnny Depp’s Glen is sucked into a hole at the center of his bed, only for massive amounts of blood to begin gushing out with rapid force, spraying everything unfortunate enough to surround it.
An example more directly inspired by Kurosawa can be found throughout the likes of Kill Bill, where the chopping off of a limb leads to blood squirting out like a malfunctioning squib.
That’s exactly what happened at the end of the climactic battle of Sanjuro when a prop blood-filled compressor hose broke mid-take.
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