Akira Kurosawas geografiska informationssystem

Andra som var före sin tid: Akira Kurosawa. Franska (e)space & fiction menar att Kurosawa i filmen Himmel och helvete (Tengoku to jigoku), 天国と地獄) från 1963 förekom kommande decenniers GIS-teknologi:

What's interesting in this movie in terms of spatial machinery is a specific scene in which the police combines several geographic criteria manually in order to find out the public phone from where the kidnaper regularly calls Gondo. (...) The spatial analysis done by these policemen to select the phone booth then requires some advanced GIS functionalities that were not available at the time the movie was released (1963).