Originally Posted by Spoonez el Grande

Tough one, Franco. I reckon the best thing to do is watch all his movies in chronological order. As for accessibility, I reckon Yojimbo and Sanjuro are very accessible and light hearted(well. . .). But I've loved most of his stuff. Ran's my fav, I thought that was another very accessible film, basically it was his adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear, so it wasn't difficult to follow at all and aesthetically speaking, I think it's probably in my top 3 in the cinematography department.

Hidden Fortress, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Ran, Throne of Blood(possible my second fav Kurosawa) are all highly recommended. Kaghemusha whilst very good, wasn't quite upto the standards of the above mentioned films. I've yet to Dreams and Ikiru.