For years now, Akira Kurosawa’s films have been just sitting there hogging all the respect, refusing to share their near-universally lauded stories and masterful composition, except among the dozens and dozens of filmmakers who have just ripped them off and called them something else. Well, Kurosawa’s reign of terror and selfishness ends today: The Los Angeles-based Splendent Media has just signed a deal to represent the rights to 69 Kurosawa projects, riding into the proverbial fortress and liberating them for all the filmmakers in the village to remake and otherwise share among the modern people who will no longer be cowed into reading subtitles. And along with all of his most famous, prestige-hoarding works, the deal also includes 19 unproduced scripts that can be adapted without Kurosawa lording over them from upon his throne of blood, which is also the name of a movie that someone else can finally make now.