Kurosawa is GOD

[UrbanRevolution]

Akira Kurosawa is the man!! I just picked up Hidden Fortress. What a fantastic movie. So funny.

I would have to say Kurosawa is the best storyteller ever. The man makes Magic. His characters are so developed…. Plus having Toshiro Mifune to back you up doesn’t hurt.

Mifune's got so much range as an actor it’s unreal.

Kurosawa's movies have everything... Action, romance, comedy, and the best part….ethics. It’s the whole package. Every time....

Seven Samurai is my second favored movie of all time.. Casablanca is number one…so it goez. (i'm a hopeless romantic at heart)

I swear every Kurosawa is an epic tale…I love em!
Truly storytelling at it’s best

[kazuchiyo]

He's pretty good.
Watch Rashomon.

[UrbanRevolution]

on it! thanks...

[UrbanRevolution]

He's pretty good.
Watch Rashomon.


ok i just got to it... wow a very powerfull film. Even with all the twisted things that happen to twisted people in this lifetime,
you can still believe in the human soul.

It's a beautiful statement.

[kazuchiyo]

ok i just got to it... wow a very powerfull film. Even with all the twisted things that happen to twisted people in this lifetime,
you can still believe in the human soul.

It's a beautiful statement.

It's based on 2 different stories written by the famous author Akutagawa Ryunosuke, who I studied a bit in college, called In a Grove and Rashomon.

A lot of his works have been translated and you should check them out. The're older so they're in most libraries, I think.

[UrbanRevolution]

cool thanks i'll look into them....
now i'm onto... Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru, it looks good..
have fun

[ddr tatsujin]

Ikiru is his best film.

[tomselleck69]

kurosawa is responsible for turning me into a film buff.


like most people, seven samurai is my favorite, followed by rashomon. there are so many others, but i am yet to see a bad kurosawa film. granted i've only seen something like 10 out of 60-something...

...but very realistically, there are not that many directors out there with 10 great films to their name.

[Dusty Chalk]

He is amazing. I've only recently started watching his movies (a couple of movie buff friends have been force-feeding his works to me).

One thing I've noticed -- you know how there are certain signature shots that directors like to do? And then lesser directors like to imitate them? There's one thing that Kurosawa does -- not really a signature shot, but the closest thing to it that he does -- that I haven't seen imitated. It's this: There's someone in the foreground, and they're moving around, like looking through windows or something, yet your eye is drawn to what is going on...I don't want to say, "in the background", but farther away than what is in the foreground. It's like...despite the fact that there is something going on in both the foreground and the background, your eye is still drawn to the background, like they're switched. Framing, it has a lot to do with how he frames a shot. It's just amazing -- it takes my breath away every time I catch him doing it.

[tomselleck69]

yeah, he was a master of complex staging. many filmmakers dont bother with the possibility of letting the foreground and background interact with each other [probably because it's difficult to do well/subtly,] but kurosawa was skilled enough to facilitate the interaction, allowing the foreground and background to coexist organically, and occasionally comment on each other.

and if Kurosawa has any signature, it's gotta be the side wipe transition. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe)

[UrbanRevolution]

ya i picked up on that shot this last time around... good eye.

i just got Sanjuro... oh so good. Mifune is the man with all the right stuff.
good action, great story.... very well done.

i also got Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru.... more of a current thriller / crime story... very China town. It's a little hard to understand at first but in the end it all comes together. Not what i expected at all.