It has to be how I see it, not how I think Japanese cinema would look or a film shot about Japanese films in the 17th century would look.
Martin Scorsese said that in order to get the look of his new film Silence, he had to go back in time to the classic Japanese cinema he grew up with.
In an interview with IMDB, Scorsese talks about how the Japanese films he saw when he was younger played into making his version of Japan in the era of Silence.
And the Mizoguchi films introduced me to Kurosawa and everyone else and I became obsessed really with Japanese film.