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Thanks for the link. I had seen some of Kurosawa's films but was unable to pinpoint why they felt so different from modern films.

Another from the same channel, not related to cuts though https://vimeo.com/118078262

That video is super informative, thanks for posting it. I now realize I hadn't fully appreciated Kurosawa and I need to go back and watch his movies again.

Just FYI, Kurasawa's favorite filmmaker was Ozu Yasujiro, whose visual style is vastly simpler (using almost no pans or zooms, etc). Wim Wenders 1985 documentary Tokyo-Ga is an excellent introduction (first six minutes is here):

http://youtu.be/dW-7ZVzDMdU

came here to say exactly this.

if you don't take care to replace the focus object with something else in the same area in the cut scene the viewer will notice.

the author seems to spout on about an interesting subject which he didn't investigate very deeply -- that is, film-making.

(note, i didn't read the entire article -- maybe he recovered toward the end, i just didn't find it very thoughtful by the time I got to the middle)