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Adam Low,
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: Not Rated
: Wellspring Media
: Documentary, Foreign, Biographies, UK
: 215 min.
: English, Japanese
: English
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Akira Kurosawa was arguably the most important Japanese filmmaker who ever lived; he was certainly among the most revered and most influential. His award-winning feature Rashomon was one of the first major international successes in Japanese filmmaking, convincing many western cineastes for the first time that Japan had a national cinema worth investigating, and his subsequent body of work -- including Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo, and Ran -- is emotionally rich and esthetically compelling in a way few filmmakers can match. Kurosawa is a documentary which explores the personal and professional lives of this giant of world cinema, including interviews with his friends, family, contemporaries, actors, fellow filmmakers, and noted cinema historians -- and in archival clips, Kurosawa himself. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| Kurosawa Akira
by TaoG
April 8, 2005 - 11:28 PM PDT
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4 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| Kurosawa is loosely based on "Something Like an Autobiography" (Kurosawa's self-titled autobiography) and is less interesting than Kurosawa's own cinematic-like style of writing. However, some of the most compelling and touching insites into Kurosawa's as a man and his artistic process are in the 90 minutes of bonus interview footage edited by Teruyo Nogami, Kurosawa's longtime script editor. That's where I felt my "spine start to tingle"; the feeling Kurosawa often referred to when he would create, stumble upon, envision, or capture a magic moment on film. |
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