Kurosawa

[America: Fuck Yea!]

Discuss...

what are your favorite films? What still holds up today? What do you like, what don't you like?

Renting the The Seven Samurai this week.

[That Jerk]

Rashomon and Yojimbo are my favorites. The only one i remember seeing and not liking was Ran, but I am much older now and would probably love it.

[kuumuus]

i'll be picking up seven samurai next week.

the hidden fortress
throne of blood
ikiru
yojimbo
ran
dreams

top three are masterpieces, next two didn't do much for me but were still a joy to watch, dreams was just incredibly boring.

[America: Fuck Yea!]

i'll be picking up seven samurai next week.

rumor has it that Criterion is releasing a much better edition this year with many special features and a new transfer (Similar to what they did with Lang's M). Might want to hold out...

[kuumuus]

actually, by "picking up" i mean it's being held at the library. haha. i'd like to own it, but $30 is out of my price range.

[SideshowTim]

throne of blood is probably my favourite.

i did an in depth study of it for english last year which was excellent.

[doyle]

i own ran. favorite is ikiru though, followed by seven samurai, then throne of blood.

[aoife]

Someone stole the copy of Stray Dog, at my good video store. I need to see this one.

The video store guy and I, will just have to kill or maim the person who has it.

[Leopold]

Ikiru, Rashomon and Seven Samurai are all masterpieces in my opinion. Yojimbo, The Hidden Fortress (I just recently saw this, and it is just pure entertainment - and that's a good thing) and Throne of Blood. Drunken Angel, the first Kurosawa/Mifune collaboration is also really good, as well as Ran and Kagemusha. However, even though his later films (Ran and Kagemusha are the ones I'm thinking of) are utterly beautiful, I just feel that they lack that certain something that were present earlier.

I'm looking forward to seeing Stray Dog, Red Beard, Dersu Uzala and just about everything else he directed.

[doyle]

cage-mouche?

[Son of Bomber]

Ran, Stray Dog and Seven Samurai are my favourites. Rashomon and Ikiru are overrated and the latter doesn't stand up at all to Ozu's similar Tokyo Story.

[George]

what the hell...?
i say "house of flying daggers".

[Icedragon]

what the hell...?
i say "house of flying daggers".

:uhh:

If you have no fucking idea what people are talking about, it's probably a good idea not to post and make yourself look like an idiot...

Anyway, I've only seen Seven Samurai, but I do want to see some other movies he made.

[kevin]

i'm so ashamed i've never seen a film of his... i recorded seven samurai a while ago but never watched it and it got deleted.

[Jolly Bengali]

I really, really hated Rashomon. I'm sorry. The only scenes I liked were those at the gate - the main story was terrible so often.

Seven Samurai was fantastic, though, and this is a weakness in my film education I'm going to chip away at soon, probably with Ikiru or HIdden Fortress

[America: Fuck Yea!]

just watched Seven Samurai again:

I just have two questions about the 7...

Katsushiro seems like a "boy" and more of a an apprentice. Was he really only a samurai in training?

and

Kikuchiyo was originally a farmer child. Was he just a great fighter with a great spirit that was pretending to be a samurai? or did he really train and become a samurai at one point? It seems that the former is true since he lied about his family tree and constantly cursed the samurai.

Forgive me if the film actually addressed these questions... I just didn't see them.

So, doesn't that just leave 5 full blown samurai?

[Red Right]

I really, really hated Rashomon. I'm sorry. The only scenes I liked were those at the gate - the main story was terrible so often.

Uh seriously? I think that movie is absolutely flawless and easily Kurosawa's best. What's so terrible about the story?

[kevin]

i liked rashomon, but i really disliked yojimbo. yawn.

i still need to see ikiru.

[Eddie]

one of a million important directors I have yet to experience :(

[America: Fuck Yea!]

you should probably get on that.