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What is your fav. Kurosawa flick... and why?!?!

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  • Josh
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    Thu, October 30, 2003 - 12:54 AM
    I think his best film was Seven Samurai, but I think my favorite is Dersu Uzala. This film is such an amazing human tale that really puts the idea of "progress" front and center. The main character is mezmerizing to me and the tale is almost timeless as we are constantly in the process of leaving something behind for some kind of advancement.
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  • Tracy
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    Wed, January 7, 2004 - 5:56 PM
    I continually go back to revisit "Dreams." I love all of Kurasawa's work, but that one just takes my breath away. I first saw it in a film analysis class, and then I did a study of Kurasawa's begining use of color in "Dodeskedan" and his later use of color, "Dreams," and became even more enraptured by his absolute spectacular cinematography and mis en scene. That and the colors are so pretty.
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  • Kapaali
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    Thu, January 8, 2004 - 7:38 PM
    Seven Samurai. It's beautiful and crazy. I love to watch the head samurai guy (I can NEVER remember his name) draw his bow in that last battle. Smooth and sweet, as if nothing else is going on around him. It is one of the most beautiful things captured on film.
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    • Neil
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      Wed, January 21, 2004 - 11:49 AM
      Seven Samurai is my favorite, but I'll say Throne of Blood just to be different. That and I hate Kapaali. Bitch.

      Seriously, I saw The Manificent Seven for the first time the other day and Yul Brenner looks like ass compared to the Japanese actors.
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    • Scott
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      Fri, March 5, 2004 - 5:48 PM
      Takashi Shimura! He was a regular in Kurosawa's group of actors. He probably best known in the US as the lead in Ikiru and had a nice career of his own.

      Oh, my favorite Kurosawa film. I suspect I am about to spend time raving about Ikiru because I haven't seen it yet and just got the Criterion edition. Yay!

      I secretly suspect that I haven't yet seen my favorite Kurosawa film yet.
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  • Gerard
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    Tue, January 23, 2007 - 3:06 AM
    I really liked: "Ikiru" (To Live). This quote summarizes it quite well: "Only when he learned he would die did he start to live!", maybe because of the "moral message": the idea of this old selfish civil servant who starts devoting his last months to helping other people is very touching. I also really like the "Cobweb Castle", based on Shakespeare's "Macbeth": i find it better constructed than the original, (which says something!). "Rashomon" is absolutely brilliant and impressive, but I must admit I do prefer the aformentioned two. But I haven't been able to see "The Idiot", or the "Lower Depths" not to mention "the Seven Samouraï" or almost all his early movies so i don't suppose i can really answer the question properly. i had heard that for him (as for some others): the earliest are the best...
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  • hikaru
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    Tue, July 3, 2007 - 6:16 PM
    Hi all!
    I decided to continue the thread.

    a few of my favorite ones are (not in these order...):

    1. Ra-sho-mon : ...for dealing with relative truth and more....
    2. Seven Samurai: to experience what it mean to be the 'unemployed' samurais
    3. Dreams: ...archetypal. Did you know those are based on his own dreams? Each chapter commences with the words..." I've had this kind of dream.....(Kon na yume o mi ta......)"

    blessings,
    Hikaru
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