What is your favorite Kinosawa film anon?
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What is your favorite Kinosawa film anon?
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I've still got the final seven to go.
That or Ikiru
My favorites are Drunken Angel and Ikiru for personal reasons
Dreams
Ikiru or High and low
Overrated. The Japanese have only ever been able to either copy, or create slop. No middle ground.
t. slant eyed chink
Ok Chang give us some Chinese film recommendations then if your country really #1
The one with the ghost and the e prophecy... Throne of blood? I'm never sure with the names cause I've seen a bunch. Also yojimbo + sanjuro
yeah throne of blood. Kino of the highest order
I'm a Ran guy as well.
I have never seen a Kurosawa joint and I'm about to start High and Low. What am in for?
The greatest movie ever made. Such astounding kino almost nothing else compares.
Is Ran boring? It looks beautiful from the shots you always see but I bet it's very slow and long
It's good, I found it very gripping.
For me, it started off slowly.
But then... this went fricking crazy fast
He's good but Stanley Kubrick is the goat
I'd say him and Kubrick are equals. Which is to say neither of them have ever made a bad movie. In my mind it's between Kubrick and Kurosawa for best director of all time. Neither of these two men even knew how to make a bad movie.
I put Ran because it was really hard to choose, but one movie of his that's somewhat obscure that I thought was megakino when I watched it was Dersu Uzala. It's an incredible film and Chadosawa directed it as a Russian language film, a language that he didn't even speak.
Leone
Hard disagree. Kubrick's camerawork and editing don't come close to Kurosawa's. Kubrick knew how to frame pretty shots, but he rarely did anything interesting with movement. 2001, Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are 10/10 though.
Kubrick never made a movie as good as High and Low.
It's impossible to choose one. I'm less a fan of his Shakespeare adaptations than i am of his original stuff. But I think everything he did from Drunken Angel up to Madadayo is worth watching multiple times.
Kubrick's best work was in the 60s.
Kurosawa had way more hits and was more consistent. Kurosawa's cinematography is more interesting, especially his use of movement and weather, and he was a far superior editor too.
**oh frick and Kurosawa's blocking is absolutely insanely good. I can't imagine there would be anyone better.
Sergio Leone is also up there despite having very few films
Leone was good but A Fistful of Dollars was just a Yojimbo ripoff with worse blocking and cinematography. That proved he didn't come close to Kurosawa.
>Yojimbo ripoff
Yojimbo itself ripped off older westerns.
You don't know what ripoff means. Watch any Western before Yojimbo side by side and say it's a ripoff like a Fistful of Dollars is a ripoff of Yojimbo.
Yes, but that was his second film and after that he improved a lot.
Leone is the best disciple of the master. By Good, Bad and Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West he'd become almost as good as Kurosawa. The thing is Leone draws attention to the shot composition as an effect, which is great when it works, but Kurosawa just does it in a natural, poetic way that flows perfectly with the rest of his cinematographic flair.
Seven Samurai
you might think it's a boring and safe pick but it's so so good
masterfully directed, it's unbelievable it was filmed in 1954, yet it feels so modern and it's a perfect blend of genres - you get 30min of romance, than 30min of drama, philosophy and action
Ran for me as well. King Lear is my favorite Shakespeare play also and Kurosawa adapted it masterfully while also adding to it in meaningful ways. My local cinematheque is screening it next saturday.
Watched Seven Samurai last week and despite all the immense praise i've read about it over the years i was still extremely impressed. I didn't expect it to be so humanist and emotionally impactful, i expected a proto action film with some funny moments in between. It's one of the most complete depictions of the human spirit i've seen a film achieve.
>Kurosawa adapted it masterfully while also adding to it in meaningful ways
No he didn't, it's his worst Shakespeare adaptation and comparing it to Lear turns it into utter shit. You have to utterly extricate it from the play to appreciate it, that is, appreciate it as a movie and not as an adaption of a play. Everything he adds or changes makes it worse, whether it's the characters, dramatic impact or overall world. I went in expecting Lear and was sorely disappointed. But if you just view it as another Kurosawa movie then it can be enjoyed.
>tfw we missed out on a kurosawa film closely following all the scenes and characters of lear
It's enough to spoil the whole movie, but I'll get over it.
Seven Samurai gets my vote for Kurosawa's magnum opus. Throne of blood is my personal favorite of his films though.
Ikiru and Throne of Blood are probably my favourites.
Honestly it's possible. Such a consistent track record.
For me it's The Bad Sleep Well.
not even a top5 japanese director
Name the top 5.
easy
Ozu
Mizoguchi
Kobayashi
Shimizu
Naruse
>Kobayashi
Yk what I'll hand this one to you, Harakiri is the best movie I've ever seen.
>Ozu
Yes.
>Mizoguchi
Yes.
>Kobayashi
Made about four great films, but the vast majority of his filmography is shit. Too uneven.
>Shimizu
Disagree.
>Naruse
Even harder disagree. Guy made okay dramas with a fairly bland style.
I have fond memories of watching Yojimbo and Sanjuro when I was sick before. So those two are my favorite.
Based and cozypilled.
It was maximum cozy.
My favorite shot is at the start where the camera stays inside the inn and you see him slowly go around the street and back in this long scene. You don't see that creative framing anymore in big movies.
Kurosawa can't hold Ozu's nutsack
It's 7 samurai, Dersu Uzala and Ikiru for me. Kagemusha and Yojimbo are cool af too, for different reasons. He truly was a master.
>40 movies
i'm going to try to see at least a dozen AK films, and i will come here to answer OP.
too bad he didn't make it to AK47.
He has 30 feature films
Based connoisseur. I'll repost the thread at some point if it takes you a while. Enjoy the kinoma Monsieur.
It'd take at least a full day. May as well just repost on Wednesday or Friday.
Thursday it is then.
Some of Kurosawa's early films have had an impressive impact on film and media in general:
Yoyimbo.
The archetype of the silent antihero directly influenced Sergio Leone and at the same time created a new way of seeing the western.
Seven samurai.
The movie about creating a team of people all with different personalities to carry out a mission.
Rashomon.
The structure of this film is almost like a genre. The characters give their point of view about something that happened and involves them.
Damn, rashomon's influence isn't just in the movies. Many long-running TV series have an episode with this theme.
%3D
There's also Stray Dog, one of the first buddy cop film.
I haven't seen that movie yet
It's an okay noir movie I'd say. It's a nice little time capsule too seeing post-war Japan and how the characters are PTSD-ridden vets who just went home from the war.
High and Low imo
OP is a smelly pirate hooker
>1st son's forces match his outfit with one stripe
>2nd son's forces match his outfit with two stripes
>3rd son's forces match his outfit with THREE stripes
I get why he did it, but it just feels a little silly when I think about it.
>black and white movies
instantly dropped 1 point from the rating no matter how good they are. film is a visual medium and no color is a handicap.
>Ran
Beautiful looking film, however the plot is a snoozefest
Most of his movies are great but they're not perfect.
Godzilla minus one is unironically a better film in black and white
behold, the take of a zoomer brainlet
Bait
Can some one who's in the know tell me why they paint those little splotches high on their forehead & have shaved eyebrows?
it's about the drip
The mile high eyebrow is like the least stupid of Japanese nobility fashion trends. Wait until you see the black teeth
I just want to know more.
why did they cut her head off? did she said the n word?
worse, she had a woman moment
Bergman is better.
1. Ikiru
2. High and Low
3. Seven Samurai
4. Ran
5. Red Beard
Almost impossible to rank his films. So many could be argued for top 5 but this is my personal top 5. His only film that I consider overrated is Kagemusha. I found it super forgettable.
I thought Kagemusha was a good sort of historical drama, the camera work in it was really cool and the sets were also sick. On the other hand I don't remember much from that movie and I also half fell asleep watching it kek. I'll have to give Red Beard a watch thoughever.
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stray dog is a very underrated film
Isn't it the most famous 'early' Kurosawa film? Something like The Silent Duel is much more underrated. What an inspiring film!
Best scene in the movie.
I've seen 18 of his films and the most touching one was Madadayo. After that it's High & Low, Kagemusha, Dersou Uzala, Seven Samurai and Rashomon in no particular order.
That's giving me high hopes for his 90s films. Thanks.
This movie hit me superhard. Masterpiece. And you can say that about a lot of Kurosawa
Shaekespear but Naz edo period lover fantasy 2
High and Low
For me it's Kagemusha. Saw it on the big screen a few months ago, really brings Kurosawa's dramatic compositions to life.
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He was pretty good in Rush Hour