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Years ago I watched Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Rashomon, and maybe others, but I remember very little except that I enjoyed them, and that numerous other movies were patterned after them.
Eureaka if u are ameniable, did u see After The Rain? Did u really miss his directing? Wasn't his screen play and the "force of his body of work" enough to make it a Kurosawa film? Am at a language loss here no speaking the lingo...even though One Piece has caused me to learn alot Did the other director use Kurosawas weather trick in the rain movie, smearing the screen with black dyed water from the trucks
dwain-glad to see ya hangin in there man
The thing i like best about deciphering Joanna's songs...i'm always wrong.
Since you really wanted to talk Kurosawa's work...the film of his that has always struck me the most is of course Seven Samurai. The film trancends place, time and circumstance, in a way few others have...perhaps Death of a Salesman comes close. They are in filming of a new remake, as we speak, of paramilitary defending a Thai town, but the theme of this film has echoed down the years,Dirty Dozen,Guns of Naverone and even Star Wars stuff owe direct aliegance to SS, tipping thier hats to the masterpiece that it is. The direct remakes are good but they never quite get the grittyness of the original. I thinks thats what struck me most about Kurosawa's technique, this is a film about dirt farmers, poor people with very little, and the movie gets that across by splashing mud and filth everywhere, u can almost feel it driipping from the camera lenses.Another stroke of genius by Kurosawa is the use of a little set village, the tight camera lines, the closeness slams the viewer with the poverty of the farmers plight. This isn't a romantic view of fuedal Japan, the tension between the farmers and the warrior class is in play throughout the entire film. But kinda like the old fairy tale of "Stone Soup" where wanders enter a village, that has slamed its small coffers of food shut, so they make a huge show of cooking some soup with just a stone, causes the villagers to say...ohhh i have a few carrots to add for flavor, until a wonderful stew is made for all, the Samurai engage the villagers warrior instinct enough to make them a fighting force, and the villagers engage the samurai enough to make them ashamed of samuria abuse of the poor and even take one of their own back into the group, as the young farmer/samurai falls in love with a village girl and stays behind at the end. One very intriguing element of this movie is the introduction of muskets, they seem almost alien to the honor of swordfighting, causeing superhuman efforts by the samurai to remove this threat, and nearly swaying the delicate balance of power between samurai and bandit by costing the lives of several of the samurai. While this film is quite brutal in its portrayal of this "fight" i think it is a film everyone should watch once, it stands as one of the greatest films ever made(though filmed in the 50's) and is perhaps the greatest influence of other films and directors ever made.
dwain
The thing i like best about deciphering Joanna's songs...i'm always wrong.
I appreciate your insights on The Seven Samurai. I liked your point on the notion of the musket being an alien force. It does give a sort of stronger tension in the story and as a viewer.
Considering you brought up the word "gritty" you might appreciate another Kurosawa film called Dodes'ka-den. It's about different characters and their lives in a Tokyo slum. It's his first color film so the colors and lighting are rather vivid and the depiction of the characters are whimsical. The setting and the various predicaments of the narration can be seen as grim, but the saturation and the interactions are presented in such a way it is lighthearted, yet serious.
On another note, the director has the final say/interpretation of the screenplay.
I haven't seen After The Rain. Are there elements that would be in a Kurosawa film?
i haven't seen it either, the language barrier methinks, but the synopsis says travelers trapped in a town by tremendous rain storms...so yes Kurosawa all the way
dwain
The thing i like best about deciphering Joanna's songs...i'm always wrong.
love me some Kurosawa & Mifune! Own many of his films from the Criterion Collection.
Dwain you reference that Seven Samurai may have influenced Star Wars. You are correct- but an even bigger influence on Lucas and Star Wars was Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress". SOme have gone as far as calling Star Wars IV: A New Hope a re-imagining of The Hidden Fortress. Rumor had it Lucas even wanted to purchase the rights to The Hidden Fortress.
For me, Rashomon is his most poignant and most important influential cinematic piece. I could go on and on about such a simple, yet masterfully complex film- but let's leave it at- if you haven't seen it- go watch it now!
Yojimbo, Sanjuro are faves...although I throw up in my mouth when I think of the 2007 Sanjuro remake or any attempt to remake these films....