TIL that the “blood geyser” trope in sword fighting movies, animated or otherwise, comes from a technical failure on a Kurosawa set in 1962 that the man himself refused to reshoot because the actors stayed in character and the shot looked so cool.
https://screenrant.com/akira-kurosawa-sanjuro-mistake-change-action-movies-violence/
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