According to Yoshio Tsuchiya, for the scene where the samurai and the villagers burn down the bandits' hideout, the production had to have a fire truck standing by on-set in case of emergency, but all of the nearby fire trucks spent the day fighting actual fires. So the crew simply had to wait for a truck to arrive. In the interim, Akira Kurosawa and his crew sprayed gasoline around various part of the fortress set, in order to be sure it would burn thoroughly. When the time came to actually shoot the sequence, the fire started much faster and burned much hotter than expected, but the cast still had to work hard to get it done in one take. As Kurosawa shouted "Keep going!" off-camera, Tsuchiya had to approach the door of the fortress in an attempt to save his character's wife. As he did, the roof collapsed, and the rush of hot air severely burned his windpipe. Tsuchiya also noted that, by the end of the shoot, the fire had grown so hot that it burned the grass on the cliffs above the set. Kurosawa was apparently so stressed by the ordeal that he cried as firefighters extinguished the blaze.
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