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AKIRA KUROSAWA!!
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Not this Akira:
This Akira:
Kurosawa on IMDb
He made some movies. Some people think they are pretty good. Here are a few of them:
Seven Samurai!!
Seven Japanese Warriors! The Village is at stake! Fight for honor!
If you haven't seen this movie yet, then you are a socially illiterate goon who is also gay and stinky. Go see it now and rectify this problem. Don't be surprised if your loved ones organize an intervention session if you resist making this important non-gay-stinky change in your life.
This movie is basically the Japanese Citizen Kane.
Ikiru (to live)
A man learns to really live life after a cancer prognosis gives him six months.
Touching, beautiful, and oddly dark. Also long.
Ran
King Lear reimagined in Japan. Epic battles, drama, and a fool. I like it a lot. The colors in this one are amazing.
Holy shit, he made a ton of other movies too!
Sanshiro Sugata/Judo Saga (Sugata Sanshiro) (1943)
The Most Beautiful (Ichiban Utsukushiku) (1944)
Sanshiro Sugata Part II/Judo Saga Part II (Zoku Sugata Sanshiro) (1945)
Those Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) (1945)
Those Who Make Tomorrow (Asu o tsukuru hitobito) (1946)
No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun nu kuinashi) (1946)
One Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki nichiyobi) (1947)
Drunken Angel (Yoidore Tenshi) (1948)
The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru ketto) (1949)
Stray Dog (Nora inu) (1949)
Scandal (Shubun) (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
The Idiot (Hakuchi) (1951)
Ikiru (Living/To Live) (1952)
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (1954)
I Live in Fear/To Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku) (1955)
Throne of Blood (Kumo no su-jo) (1957)
The Lower Depths (Donzoko) (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (Kakukshi toride no san akunin) (1958)
The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjuro) (1962)
High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (1963)
Red Beard (Akahige) (1965)
Dodes’ka-den (Dodesukaden) (1970)
Dersu Uzala (1974)
Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980)
Ran (1985)
Dreams (Yume) (1990)
Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku) (1991)
Madadayo (1993)
Talk about Kurosawa ITT. Other notable Eastern movie-makers are also acceptable.
GO!
This Akira:
Kurosawa on IMDb
He made some movies. Some people think they are pretty good. Here are a few of them:
Seven Samurai!!
Seven Japanese Warriors! The Village is at stake! Fight for honor!
If you haven't seen this movie yet, then you are a socially illiterate goon who is also gay and stinky. Go see it now and rectify this problem. Don't be surprised if your loved ones organize an intervention session if you resist making this important non-gay-stinky change in your life.
This movie is basically the Japanese Citizen Kane.
Ikiru (to live)
A man learns to really live life after a cancer prognosis gives him six months.
Touching, beautiful, and oddly dark. Also long.
Ran
King Lear reimagined in Japan. Epic battles, drama, and a fool. I like it a lot. The colors in this one are amazing.
Holy shit, he made a ton of other movies too!
Sanshiro Sugata/Judo Saga (Sugata Sanshiro) (1943)
The Most Beautiful (Ichiban Utsukushiku) (1944)
Sanshiro Sugata Part II/Judo Saga Part II (Zoku Sugata Sanshiro) (1945)
Those Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi) (1945)
Those Who Make Tomorrow (Asu o tsukuru hitobito) (1946)
No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun nu kuinashi) (1946)
One Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki nichiyobi) (1947)
Drunken Angel (Yoidore Tenshi) (1948)
The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru ketto) (1949)
Stray Dog (Nora inu) (1949)
Scandal (Shubun) (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
The Idiot (Hakuchi) (1951)
Ikiru (Living/To Live) (1952)
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (1954)
I Live in Fear/To Live in Fear (Ikimono no kiroku) (1955)
Throne of Blood (Kumo no su-jo) (1957)
The Lower Depths (Donzoko) (1957)
The Hidden Fortress (Kakukshi toride no san akunin) (1958)
The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Sanjuro (Tsubaki Sanjuro) (1962)
High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) (1963)
Red Beard (Akahige) (1965)
Dodes’ka-den (Dodesukaden) (1970)
Dersu Uzala (1974)
Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980)
Ran (1985)
Dreams (Yume) (1990)
Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku) (1991)
Madadayo (1993)
Talk about Kurosawa ITT. Other notable Eastern movie-makers are also acceptable.
GO!
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on the topic of east asian directors, more people should see still life by jia zhangke
SAMURAI
IS
AWESOME
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This was me until a couple of months ago when I netflix'd Ran. It was awesome. I've decided to eventually work my way through his entire filmography. It's intimidatingly large, however.
Okay, I don't.
Basically any movie with Mifune.
fuck that shit
Retarded or joking? I can't tell.
You watch movies with subtitles and shit.
siezures
I knew it. There are socially illiterate, gay, stinky goons on this forum. So who's organizing the intervention?
I have a lot of Kurosawa movies on dvd
anyways, Seven Samurai is the best.
only have seven samurai and rashomon, at the present moment
That is weird, these are the moveis I have a well. I really want to see Ikiru though.
What's the difference? (I ask out of genuine curiosity)
if you see a movie with the criterion collection label, its pretty much guaranteed a good watch
# - All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer
# - Two audio commentaries: one by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie; the other by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck
# - A 50-minute documentary on the making of Seven Samurai, part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
# - My Life in Cinema, a two-hour video conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima produced by the Directors Guild of Japan
# - Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a new documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that impacted Kurosawa's masterpiece
# - Theatrical trailers and teaser
# - Gallery of rare posters and behind-the scenes and production stills
# - New and improved English subtitle translation
# - PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Peter Cowie, Philip Kemp, Peggy Chiao, Alain Silver, Kenneth Turan, Stuart Galbraith, Arthur Penn, and Sidney Lumet and an interview with Toshiro Mifune
he makes some wicked movies
like bad boys 2
The court life, the posturing, all the epicness you could require from a political piece on Japan's feudal warfare, shot in stunning colour. Its one of his last films, and unfortunately does not feature Toshiro Mifune, but Goddamn it is a great movie.
t goldenseducer - Dreams is on the list; third from the bottom. I only have synopses of ones I've actually seen.
If any of you want to write up something from your favorites, I'll paste them into the OP.
I did watch Rashomon and it was brilliant... if I remember correctly
I need to see more Kurosawa.
I withdraw my question. Sorry for being loud.
I was depressed yesterday so I put in the Seven Samurai that Sarukun gave me (Thank you again)
It is flat out my favorite movie of all time
Also I'm reading Something Like an Autobiography by Kurosawa
So I'm in full mode right now
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especially armageddon
Dunno. Shogun Assassin ranks up there on the cheesiest move ever list.
Oh, Penguin
I was this close to going off
You shouldn't do that to me
Anyway
Yes, it is long but it is packed with information if you pay attention
Nearly every scene has at least one joke, plot development for the overall story, plot development for at least four of the many subplots and character development for almost everyone in the scene
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