This is quite possibly one of the greatest Kurosawa movies ever created and the movie that ended his prolific/black and white days as a director...why are their no posts? Let's here some opinions on this movie, it deserves it!
shareIm collecting kurosawas criterion movies, but i am a little hesitent on this one and stray dog, what would you recomend?
shareI would definitely pick up the both of these movies if you get the chance! Red Beard is an amazing epic and one of Kurosawa's most heart moving dramas. You won't be disappointed! Stray Dog I actually just watched the other night. It is a very suspenseful thriller (it actually is the first Japanese thriller film.) and highly enjoyable. Toshiro Mifune is amazing in both of these, and Takeshi Shimura gives an outstanding supporting performance in Stray Dog. If you can pick them both up, you'll love them!
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I just got done watching it, and it is probably my favorite Kurosawa film out of the twenty I have watched.
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even though it has been largely neglected and critically panned in the US...Critically panned? Oh my Gawd...! share
I don't know why this movie isn't talked about more either. I just rented and watched it for the first time. Sure it's a little melodramatic, but it's still amazing. The range of topics that this movie dealt with is incredible (guilt, forgiveness, economics, death, love, domestic violence, sex, rape, alcoholism, ect.)
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Also, I'll go ahead and admit that I did, so anyone else cry when Sahachi's story is being told? When his wife gets him to embrace her, and thus help her commit suicide was a definite tear jerker, then his saying that he was rejoining her made it even sadder.
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Anyway, I've seen 9 Kurosawa movies, and this one ranks about #5 for me so far under Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, and Ran.
Actually I think if you like Ikiru, you'll like this one and vice-versa.
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I cried when they discover the skeleton after the landslide and he said "I buried it. She was my wife. She's come for me."
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