The Women of Kurosawa: Analysis and DiscussionPerhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of society is our notion of gender, and how that impacts us. We love to dissect portrayals of specific genders in films, and with Kurosawa it's unmistakably no diffe...
Afraid after having read all these awesome reviews I've written you won't be able to see any of the Kurosawa films? Well have no fear as all month long, every Tuesday night, Turner Classic Movies is running a Kurosawa marathon. Showing just about every Ku...
STRAY DOGDIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWAWRITTEN BY: AKIRA KUROSAWA & RYUZO KIKUSHIMAOVERALL SCORE: 7.25/10When a rookie homicide detective, Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) has his gun lifted from him on his first day, he frantically searches the streets for it....
Need a break after last week's awesome Kuorsawa lovefest? Well, then all I can say is: WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU! *Cries* Here I am working so hard, on all these lovely posts and you act like you don't even care. I thought you loved me! Fine, go... JUST GO! I...
DRUNKEN ANGELDIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWAWRITTEN BY: AKIRA KUROSAWA & KEINOSUKE UEKUSAOVERALL SCORE: 7.75/10Blunt alcoholic doctor, Sanada (Takashi Shimura), tries to help a hot-headed up and coming yakuza, Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune), with tuberculosis...
Whew, it's that time of the year. Tonight thousands of insanely rich people wearing ungodly expensive clothes will take to some overly expensive set production theater in order to declare just how humbled they are to be there....And while most people are ...
RASHOMONDIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWAWRITTEN BY: AKIRA KUROSAWA & SHINOBU HASHIMOTOOVERALL SCORE: 8.75/10Woodcutter (Takashi Shimura) and Priest (Minoru Chiaki) struggle to understand a court hearing they just witnessed in which a well known thief Tajom...
KAGEMUSHADIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWAWRITTEN BY: AKIRA KUROSAWA & MASATO IDEOVERALL SCORE: 7.75/10After the death of their lord, a group of upper officials recruit a petty thief (Tatsuya Nakadai) to impersonate their lord, while they attempt to rid the...
RANDIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWAWRITTEN BY: HIDEO OGUNI, AKIRA KUROSAWA, & MASATO IDEBASED ON THE PLAY 'KING LEAR' BY: WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREOVERALL SCORE: 9.00/10After retiring Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) falls into despair when two of his t...
Akira Kurosawa's name is often associated with William Shakespeare, he's even one of 12 members currently in the Shakespeare Hall of Fame, maintained by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Still, throughout his career of nearly 30 films only 2 of Kurosawa's...
SANJURODIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWAWRITTEN BY: AKIRA KUROSAWA, RYUZO KIKUSHIMA, & HIDEO OGUNIBASED ON NOVEL BY: SHUGORO YAMAMOTOOVERALL SCORE: 8.00/10Continuing the saga of our wondering ronin (Toshiro Mifune) as he stumbles upon nine young samurai hop...
"Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied, ... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good." - Akira Kurosawa...
YOJIMBODIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWAWRITTEN BY: AKIRA KUROSAWA & RYUZO KIKUSHIMATOP 100 FILMS: #10OVERALL SCORE: 10/10Wondering ronin (Toshiro Mifune) stumbles into a rundown town torn between two gambling overlords, each trying to stake their claim to ...
In this world there are many types of directors. There are director's who simply work in film. Those who excel in film, and those who influence film. Yet, there's another tier solely reserved for a handful of true crafting legends. Those who, in every ess...
Every once in a while a podcast comes along that redefines the very way you listen to podcasts.....This is not that podcast. Welcome to the special Boobies (political and gender), Crap films, Classics, and Politics podcast! Wait, why are you covering all ...