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LESLIE’S TRIVIA BITS: November 7, 2022

Akira Kurosawa, legendary director of “Rashomon” and “Seven Samurai” (which inspired the Western classic “The Magnificent Seven”), was a baseball fan. In fact, his 1949 noir film “Stray Dog” has a pivotal scene at a baseball game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Nankai Hawks — the top two pro teams in Japan in 1948. As a boy, Kurosawa pitched and played shortstop. “My liking for baseball is deep-rooted,” he once wrote. “Apparently I’ve been watching it since babyhood.”