does anybody here like this director?
I love his films, and these are my favorites:
-Rashomon(I simply love this film, the acting, the cinematography is exquisite, the stories are amazing)
-Seven Samurai- classic and poignant
-Ran- breathtakingly beautiful
-Throne of Blood
-Yojimbo&Sanjuro(Toshirō Mifune is all I have to say)
-Ikiru
-Kagemusha
Yume(Dreams)-truly beautiful
-The Hidden Fortress
-Dersu Uzala
-The Idiot
I always love visual movies, and Kurosawa is one the best to me. I greatly admire his movies and the stories in those movies.

does anybody here like this director?
I love his films, and these are my favorites:
-Rashomon(I simply love this film, the acting, the cinematography is exquisite, the stories are amazing)
-Seven Samurai- classic and poignant
-Ran- breathtakingly beautiful
-Throne of Blood
-Yojimbo&Sanjuro(Toshirō Mifune is all I have to say)
-Ikiru
-Kagemusha
Yume(Dreams)-truly beautiful
-The Hidden Fortress
-Dersu Uzala
-The Idiot
I always love visual movies, and Kurosawa is one the best to me. I greatly admire his movies and the stories in those movies.

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I'm a HUGE fan of Akira Kurosawa, if I were a director, I would like to be like him!!!

His style is simply beautiful.

My favorites are...

1- The Seven Samurai
2- Rashomon
3- Ikiru
4- Ran
5- Yojimbo
6- Throne Of Blood
7- The Hidden Fortress
8- The Drunken Angel
9- Kagemusha
10- Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

I'm a HUGE fan of Akira Kurosawa, if I were a director, I would like to be like him!!!

His style is simply beautiful.

My favorites are...

1- The Seven Samurai
2- Rashomon
3- Ikiru
4- Ran
5- Yojimbo
6- Throne Of Blood
7- The Hidden Fortress
8- The Drunken Angel
9- Kagemusha
10- Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

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These are my top 10, but another GREAT films are

High And Low
The Bad Sleep Well
Dersu Uzala
Sanjuro
The Idiot
Red Beard
No Regrets For Out Youth
One Wonderful Sunday
Rhapsody In August

These are my top 10, but another GREAT films are

High And Low
The Bad Sleep Well
Dersu Uzala
Sanjuro
The Idiot
Red Beard
No Regrets For Out Youth
One Wonderful Sunday
Rhapsody In August

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well, Luis, Hello again:). I love the movies you mentionedas well, and our top movies seem to be almost the same.

well, Luis, Hello again:). I love the movies you mentionedas well, and our top movies seem to be almost the same.

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hi, just joined the group.
Seven samurai is one my favorite films, sergio leone's western was inspired from that movie as well clin eastwood's character.
I also liked Ran, Rashomon, Kagemusha and the throne of blood. Unfortunately i havent seen other movies of Kurosawa, but I ll try to find more. He is one very important filmaker of the 20th century.

hi, just joined the group.
Seven samurai is one my favorite films, sergio leone's western was inspired from that movie as well clin eastwood's character.
I also liked Ran, Rashomon, Kagemusha and the throne of blood. Unfortunately i havent seen other movies of Kurosawa, but I ll try to find more. He is one very important filmaker of the 20th century.

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Welcome To the group Nefeli. I can see you have seen a good amount of his movies, and I know about hi influence on western filmmakers. do you have any favorite scenes in any movie?

Welcome To the group Nefeli. I can see you have seen a good amount of his movies, and I know about hi influence on western filmmakers. do you have any favorite scenes in any movie?

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I can recall many favorite scenes in Seven Samurai: the final battle scenes, the epic end of the movie "the farmers have won, we have lost", Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo every time he was on screen. One of the first action movies, succeeds to remain interesting all the three hours and a half. Very good narrative line, the film's structure is like a puzzle. Poetic images and an dexterous construction of all characters, thats something I really admired. One of my favorite movies.

Hmmm... what else? In Ran for example, I liked the colours, the atmopshere, the costumes, the landscapes (visually), also the scene where Ichimonji chooses Taro as the next king and all the scenes where he is alone with his assistant and he starts loosing his mind. However, I found characters very caricatural in Ran.

I can recall many favorite scenes in Seven Samurai: the final battle scenes, the epic end of the movie "the farmers have won, we have lost", Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo every time he was on screen. One of the first action movies, succeeds to remain interesting all the three hours and a half. Very good narrative line, the film's structure is like a puzzle. Poetic images and an dexterous construction of all characters, thats something I really admired. One of my favorite movies.

Hmmm... what else? In Ran for example, I liked the colours, the atmopshere, the costumes, the landscapes (visually), also the scene where Ichimonji chooses Taro as the next king and all the scenes where he is alone with his assistant and he starts loosing his mind. However, I found characters very caricatural in Ran.

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I agree with you, Nefeli, about Seven Samurai; and Mifune was great in it.
I love Ran, particularly the scene where his two greedy sons burn the castle down and he survives; he's coming out of the castle and walks out with a look of despair and madness; it is such a powerful scene.
Rashomon stands as my favorite Kurosawa film. I love the visuals in this film, the story told in four ways, the superb acting, the camera angles. I can never forge the part of the story being told by the murdered man through a medium; I love the howling wind, the flowing robes, and the creepy voice of the woman; fantastic.
the part where you say that the characters in Ran are carcatural, I can understand. However, you will notice that many of his movies are his interpretations of great works of literature.
Ran= Shakespeare's King Lear(the roles of the daughters changed to sons)
Throne of Blood=Macbeth
The Idiot=based on Dostoevsky's book of the same name
Ikiru= Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Dersu Uzala= was based on the memoir of the same title by Vladimir Arsenyev; and there are more.

I agree with you, Nefeli, about Seven Samurai; and Mifune was great in it.
I love Ran, particularly the scene where his two greedy sons burn the castle down and he survives; he's coming out of the castle and walks out with a look of despair and madness; it is such a powerful scene.
Rashomon stands as my favorite Kurosawa film. I love the visuals in this film, the story told in four ways, the superb acting, the camera angles. I can never forge the part of the story being told by the murdered man through a medium; I love the howling wind, the flowing robes, and the creepy voice of the woman; fantastic.
the part where you say that the characters in Ran are carcatural, I can understand. However, you will notice that many of his movies are his interpretations of great works of literature.
Ran= Shakespeare's King Lear(the roles of the daughters changed to sons)
Throne of Blood=Macbeth
The Idiot=based on Dostoevsky's book of the same name
Ikiru= Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Dersu Uzala= was based on the memoir of the same title by Vladimir Arsenyev; and there are more.

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I know, thats exactly why I found the characters caricatural. I cant find the same depth in the characters as when reading Shakespeare for instance, even though I have read just extracts from his work. And if I could speak Japanese of course I could appreciate better the dialogues. I think this fact is also a consequence of filming big and open spaces,landscapes when Shakespeare's characters reveal through small rooms, they r meant for theater.

For example I found that Polanski captivated in a deeper way the tragic personnality of Macbeth (as far as I can remember).

I know, thats exactly why I found the characters caricatural. I cant find the same depth in the characters as when reading Shakespeare for instance, even though I have read just extracts from his work. And if I could speak Japanese of course I could appreciate better the dialogues. I think this fact is also a consequence of filming big and open spaces,landscapes when Shakespeare's characters reveal through small rooms, they r meant for theater.

For example I found that Polanski captivated in a deeper way the tragic personnality of Macbeth (as far as I can remember).

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I understand what you mean, though I tend to really love Kurosawa's large sequences. I have read all of Shakespeare's work and as much as I love the stories I like Kurosawa's interpretations because they are not trying to be copies of Shakespeare, but rather they try to evoke the feelings and the rawness of the stories and its characters.
I live very close to a place called Balboa Park here in my city, and there is a small theather that does performances of Shakespeare stories all the time and I enjoyed those every time, but it nice to see someone take these stories and give them their own perspective.
I saw the Polanski version called The Tragedy of Macbeth(my favorite Shakespeare Tragedy), and it was actually a pretty good version.

I understand what you mean, though I tend to really love Kurosawa's large sequences. I have read all of Shakespeare's work and as much as I love the stories I like Kurosawa's interpretations because they are not trying to be copies of Shakespeare, but rather they try to evoke the feelings and the rawness of the stories and its characters.
I live very close to a place called Balboa Park here in my city, and there is a small theather that does performances of Shakespeare stories all the time and I enjoyed those every time, but it nice to see someone take these stories and give them their own perspective.
I saw the Polanski version called The Tragedy of Macbeth(my favorite Shakespeare Tragedy), and it was actually a pretty good version.

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