Please mention Michael Anderson in your article   Star Wars is not loosely based on the Hidden Fortress  Star wars is a remake of the first twothirds of the Hidden Fortress  The movie follows the Hidden Fortress closely until after the spear duel  That is where the similarity ends  It is then that the movie is a remake of the final battle of The Damnbusters    The Damnbusters is  Micheal Anderson film depicting a battle in which british bombers make attack runs at low altitude along a river trench to launch bouncing bombs at precise moments to destroy nazi damns  They are harried by enemy fighters and guns mounted on the damns  Even the targeting methods they use are strikingly similar to the targeting computers used in star wars  If you wish to be accurate and fair you should give credit to both Kurosawa and Michael Anderson  If you watch both movies you will see that Star Wars is not loosely remade of either one but it is a remake of both  It is two thirds Hidden Fortressone third Damnbusters  I am a huge fan of Star Wars and George Lucas  His great gift was taking two old totally unrelated stories and creating the greatest scifi movie of all time  He introduced many new rich bold characters and created an entire saga around this one remake  I just feel very strongly that credit should be given where credit is due  I appluad you for giving credit to Akira Kurosawa and ask you extend the same courtesy to Michael Anderson