1930 – World capitalism collapses by finance depression.
1930 – The Soviet Union starts quinquennial plans.
1933 – Roosevelt assumes as President of the United States.
1933 – Hitler is Chancellor of Germany.
At the end of his life, Kurosawa made a beautiful film of simple and easily understandable sequences, “Dreams”, which through five or six chapters, relates some of the traditions of the Japanese people, which have survived throughout centuries.