@gimpyguitarist He's never directed anything great. "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" are good, but within their genres. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a minor ripoff of superior 1930s serials. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is a god-awful "Lassie" ripoff. "Saving Private Ryan" is a jingoistic strIng of every war film cliche imaginable topped off by a god-awful ending. His "vision" is that of a sentimental retard.
my favorite Akira Kurosawa movies are 1. Seven Samurai (of course) 2. Yojimbo 3. Ikiru 4. Red Beard 5. The Bad Sleep Well 6. Sanjuro and i have never seen anyone in cinema tell a story better than he did, so well crafted simple yet complex and every scene is engaging and important to the story of the movie he makes movies you enjoy to watch over and over again
@jhaul21 It's amazing how few of my favorites are on your list. I could start a fight but I'd prefer to say that's because he made so many great films.
@HenryConway007 certainly Lucas, cause I don't think he has ever deserved any of the credit he has received in his career but not Spielberg. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third, and so many of his other films are fantastic works that exemplify his own unique vision and the admiration he had for his predecessors. Bergman, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, and Kurosawa are/were among his admirers.
@gimpyguitarist and if his admirers are any indication of his skill and accomplishments, then I'd say he's done very well for himself and for film as a whole, whether you enjoy his films or not.
@nothingness36 I'm glad you liked Ikiru so much. It tends to get overlooked because it's such a personal story and has no Samurai, battles, and so on. The battle of the inner turmoil of the human soul is the greatest and most important battle of all, and the most difficult to convey in the Cinema.
Very ironic that old Spielberg and old Lucas are currently shitting all over their own past works. Would they have wanted Seven Samurai to be "updated?"
@nothingness36 Spielberg and Lucas personally knew Kurosawa. Lucas even helped produced Kagemusha, and both cite Kurosawa as a huge influence on their work. It was a perfect choice.
A true sign of greatness is to be humble. Sir Akira Kurosawa you deserve every bit of not only this award, but also the recognition for your brilliance, genius, and a revolutionary foresight to film making. You have inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg the two greatest film directors of this generation. It is obvious how honored they were to hand this Oscar to you to show their gratitude for the inspiration they drew from your genius. I tip my hat to a true legend of the film making.
better than the american directors ... actually they are not americans ... all italians ... americans are low life motherfuckers ... japanese people hate americans .. so do i.
wow a thin Lucas... must have been before he got fat living off star wars toys... and jesus !! what's going on with Spielberg's hair??? looks like Hitler !
wow a thin Lucas... must have been before he got fat living off star wars toys... and jesus !! what's going on with Spielberg's hair??? looks like Hitler !
Kurosawa saying he doesn't understand cinema reminded me of Socrates saying he knew nothing. It's a sign of timeless genius. He definitely at least two films that could be considered the greatest ever made, and many more than are clearly the works of a master. My favourite director
I have never seen a movie by Kurosawa that has disappointed me. The closest I can think of is in "Rhapsody in August" when Richard Gere comes out and ruins the film. Thats just me though Im not fond of him.
he should've gotten an oscar for ran, that movie was just unbelivably ...not even good,not even amazeing, or great or terrific, just ...one of the greatest films you'll ever see, when you see it you know your watching a master at his finest but not his peak.
@darthqueen45 Akira Kurosawa,Brian De Palma,Francis Ford Coppola,Clint Eastwood,John Woo,George Lucas, Neil Burger,Isaac Florentine, Joe Johnston and Peter Flinth.Sorry but true!
"I don't feel I deserve this. I don't feel that I understand cinema. To grasp the true essence of cinema is very very difficult."
This is why Akira Kurosawa remained a step above the others. He was very sincere in terms of what he said. He was always a student of cinema -- always with eyes open, ears listening, always wanting to learn more, always listening to the magic of cinema, and never content with saying "enough -- I know all I need to know." That is why he was great.
@pearlpitt : You are right.... it is difficult to find such a consistency in other filmmakers... that is why I consider Kurosawa as having one of the most interesting film careers ever.
Is the man modest, or what?!! He deserves much more than a dinky award and an ovation from mainly half-baked "actors" and film/movie makers. Where's the justice?
"......they have been responsable for 8 out of 10 of the highest grossing films..... it's an incredible creative achievement...." duhhhhhhhhhhhh???????????????????
CREATIVE achievement? No it's friggin not!!!
Just as McDonalds are not the best selling restaurants in the world because they provide the best nutritional food.... you Hollywood schmuck!
Kurosawa was certainly one of the most copied Filmmakers in history. The Seven Samauri became The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo became Last Man Standing, etc.
@jamdawg "Yojimbo" also became "A Fistful of Dollars"..."Although the film was advertised in trailers as "the first film of its kind", the plot and to an extent the cinematography was based almost entirely on Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryuzo Kikushima), and was the subject of a successful lawsuit by Yojimbo's producers. Kurosawa remained insistent that he receive compensation. He wrote Leone: "It is a very fine film, but it is my film."~wiki
@GentlemanGhost1 thanks for the quote it made me laugh haha. it's true the similarities are ridiculous, i can't believe they thought they'd get away with it. advertising it as the first film of it's kind pisses me off, but despite loving kurosawa and especially yojimbo i still dig the hell out of fistful of dollars.
You can't really say Hollywood sucks without giving a reason why. Only about 2 or 3 directors are as a good as Kurosawa. Probably, Scorsese and Spielberg, but great American movies are still being made. There Will Be Blood and No Country for ex., both have two of the most perfect scripts I've ever heard. Does every movie have to be so serious anyway? Terminator was a great movie because it's awesome, Kurosawa's movies are great because they suck you into the characters emotions.
None of those Hollywood Illuminati worshipping Zionist pay-cheque collecting pathetic excuses of actors in the audience should EVER be in the the PRESENCE of the GENIUS that is Akira Kurosawa!
I've only watched "Ran", "Throne of Blood" , "Red Beard" and "Rashomon" and I already know that he's a fucking MASTER OF CINEMA!
@runningwaterpro I'm fairly sure that Lucas has been quoted as saying that he based Star Wars on Hidden Fortress, much better than James Cameron taking Pocahontas, putting it in space, then pretending he's a genius for writing such an "amazing" movie
It should be said that Kurosawa not only thought us how to be great artists, but also how to be a great human beings. His films are full of humanity and all the violence in them are actually calls against violence.
@klausweasley To begin with, Hollywood-slaved movie critics should be burned at the stake. LOL Otherwise, many Americans won't realize mammonish Hollywood sucks.
@klausweasley i think the tribute was not so bad; just the montage they gave on screen focused too much on violence and missed some of the real cathartic and polemic moments of his cinema. But Kurosawa's speech was so great. Japanese modesty bothers me most of time because I find it dishonest, but here I totally believe in his humility!
This was terribly inadequate to what he deserved. There is not one director or anyone else in the movie industry who does not owe this man tribute for their craft. Yet, there was a time in Japan that he was ridiculed and called crazy. How blind and self absorbed are some people. His movies are masterpieces of humanity.
Akiwa Kurosawa was a visionary director whose talent we've rarely seen in cinema's history. A wonderful man with beautiful thoughts and incredible imagination.
Totally rubbish. This special keep-up-appearances ceremony became insincere shitty treatment for Kurosawa. His Honorary Oscar in 1989 compares unfavorably with his Venezia's Career Golden Lion in 1982.
The funniest thing was that his every single word in this short speech sounded cruelly cynical about Hollywood and Oscar. LOL
It means this: In a world where we are constantly being lied to by people who want to manipulate and control us (government, corporations, advertisers, military, clergy), it is the artist's duty to present truths that would otherwise be forgotten.
If you watch some of his best films (red beard, dodes Ka-den, even the seven samurai) he never shies from portraying the good the bad and the ugly in all of us. That is in every character he creates. And yet at the same time he truly seems to see them with love and respect. In this aspect he was truly exceptional.
Kurosawa was undeniably one of the four or five greatest masters of the cinema (at worst). The standing ovation was lame considering who he was, Cher's was bigger a few years earlier. That's the Academy for you, I'm surprised they even heard of him (many didn't; and I doubt many heard of Ozu or Mizoguchi). And where were his Director Oscars or even nominations for Rashomon, Ikiru and Seven Samurai?? He finally got nominated for masterpiece Ran but lost to Out of Africa. Oscars mean nothing.
@jayiijay I agree with what you are saying, but I'm not mad about it. I think it is a great thing that I am one of a few people who have discovered what an astounding master Kurosawa is. If everyone felt the same way I do, the feeling would be diminished in me, or perhaps not there at all. So I am greatful, in part, that few love kurosawa's films the way I do. Kurosawa never got a best directing oscar, neither did Kubrick or Hitchcock, & for me, it makes their films all the more spectacular.
@TheInfamousJosh I agree with you,I have never ever seen a movie that could top "The Seven Samurai"...I love Akira Kurosawa and his great masterpieces :)
@jayiijay there are certainly a large number of brilliant directors who never one an academy award for it, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Werner Herzog, Fellini, Howard Hawks, Sidney Lumet, Ingmar Bergmen, Robert Altman, David Lynch, Kubrick and both Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino have been robbed several times more recently
@jayiijay i know he's a master director but to be fair i don't see much else they could've actually done. i mean, they screwed him over in the past but they couldn't do much about that then other than this. oscars are popularity contests anyway so i dont think anyone really cares
@nonserviamreviews true, and hey, it could be a lot worse. As much as I hate how the Oscars normally choose the safer, less risk-taking, less intelligent and more heart-warming tripe that usually comes out, at least they aren't the Spike TV Video Game Awards. If that were the case, Michael Bay would already have a Lifetime Achievement Award and no one would even know who Kurosawa is.
Modesty is really a rare trait in people especially here in America, so much that (in my friends case) it is often confused as uncertainty instead. The sign of a true artist (as opposed to an entrapeneur posing as an artist) is a true artist always feels he can do better.
One thing I must admit though was, he was a lot taller than I expected.
This mere man has done what few have ever accomplished, making pure flowing art shoot out of a projector. I weep at every frame of his movies, cause each second is cinema in its truest form.
thanks for posting..do not ever recall this oscar presentation.. wow, kurosawa.. so humble and thoughtful.. given his films, especially his earlier classics id expect no less..then for him to acknowledge, spielberg and lucas by first names.. thats historical to film students like myself...
The whole audience should have been bowing as soon as he was mentioned, but unfortunately half of them did not appear to know who he was, oh the shame.
None has achieved close to kurosawa´s talent and powerful filmmaking. Just the best director ever. And yet... "I think i don´t understand what film is". A lesson to all the award winners.
Thumbs up if you can identify each movie clip used in 2:12 - 5:56 and give yourself a warm pat on the back if you've seen each one of them.
P.S. why didn't they show a clip of Ikiru? The Oscars sure favored Ran for that video clipshow.
Volts48 2 days ago
@gimpyguitarist He's never directed anything great. "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" are good, but within their genres. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a minor ripoff of superior 1930s serials. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" is a god-awful "Lassie" ripoff. "Saving Private Ryan" is a jingoistic strIng of every war film cliche imaginable topped off by a god-awful ending. His "vision" is that of a sentimental retard.
HenryConway007 6 days ago
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HenryConway007 6 days ago
I wish this video would be in a better quality.
PanterAmetal100 1 week ago
Akira Kurosawa was a famous dolphin right?
WanderLink 1 week ago
Majority of these actors and film makers don't deserve to be in the same auditorium with Kurosawa
ShadowGunner82 1 week ago
kinda nice that he managed to at least say "Thank You" in English near the end and thank George and Steven.
Volts48 3 weeks ago
I bet 3/4 of the audience has no clue who he is.
TheGrerex 1 month ago 4
@TheGrerex Hahahaha! Probably not :( Anyway, I think that Akira Kurosawa is the greatest director ever..
arbide3 1 month ago
@arbide3 I would probably agree, but I am no expert.
TheGrerex 1 month ago
my favorite Akira Kurosawa movies are 1. Seven Samurai (of course) 2. Yojimbo 3. Ikiru 4. Red Beard 5. The Bad Sleep Well 6. Sanjuro and i have never seen anyone in cinema tell a story better than he did, so well crafted simple yet complex and every scene is engaging and important to the story of the movie he makes movies you enjoy to watch over and over again
jhaul21 2 months ago
@jhaul21 It's amazing how few of my favorites are on your list. I could start a fight but I'd prefer to say that's because he made so many great films.
TheGrerex 1 month ago
Right off the bat, they start with that lobbyist pig, valenti? Go fuck yourself, hollywood.
bleachrules103 3 months ago
I’m also not a fan of the now-thankfully dead Jack Valenti. Fuck ’im, and may he rot in hell.
HenryConway007 3 months ago
Akira Kurosawa was 1000× times the director that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are.
HenryConway007 3 months ago 6
@HenryConway007 certainly Lucas, cause I don't think he has ever deserved any of the credit he has received in his career but not Spielberg. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third, and so many of his other films are fantastic works that exemplify his own unique vision and the admiration he had for his predecessors. Bergman, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Scorsese, and Kurosawa are/were among his admirers.
gimpyguitarist 6 days ago
@gimpyguitarist and if his admirers are any indication of his skill and accomplishments, then I'd say he's done very well for himself and for film as a whole, whether you enjoy his films or not.
gimpyguitarist 6 days ago
@gimpyguitarist also Francois Truffaut
gimpyguitarist 6 days ago
What people don't realize is that not only does he make well crafted Samurai picks but also his crime films are out of this world!!!
samuraiyao 4 months ago
Spielberg making a Fashion Statement... I have now seen everything.
DonRMB 4 months ago
@nothingness36 I'm glad you liked Ikiru so much. It tends to get overlooked because it's such a personal story and has no Samurai, battles, and so on. The battle of the inner turmoil of the human soul is the greatest and most important battle of all, and the most difficult to convey in the Cinema.
BimLanders 4 months ago
Very ironic that old Spielberg and old Lucas are currently shitting all over their own past works. Would they have wanted Seven Samurai to be "updated?"
BimLanders 4 months ago
All bow to the one and only emperor of cinema! REI!!
soparamens 5 months ago
@nothingness36 Christopher Nolan... really? This was 1990, he wasn't even out of film school
QotSAKing 5 months ago
there's not a backbone inside that man.. what a humble man akira san
fezzie666 6 months ago
Akira Kurosawa is god! Greetings from China.
0509112x 6 months ago
@nothingness36
Martin Scorsese worked with Akira Kurosawa on several occassions. He actually appeared as Van Gough in Kurosawa's "Dreams".
aeopmusic 7 months ago
Kurosawa puts every film director that ever lived to shame.
With the exceptions of David Lean, Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford. They are, if anything, equals!
aeopmusic 7 months ago
@nothingness36 Spielberg and Lucas personally knew Kurosawa. Lucas even helped produced Kagemusha, and both cite Kurosawa as a huge influence on their work. It was a perfect choice.
servo90 7 months ago
How can people laugh at greatness? Have they never heard anyone speak Japanese before? Pathetic.
EKAA25 8 months ago
boy they sure have aged...well :D
xombl3 8 months ago
He sounds kind of like the opposite of Quentin Tarantino. I'm not saying I don't like Tarantino, but he is one egotistical fuck.
Ichiboy900 8 months ago 3
Must go faster.
Throwmethewhip 9 months ago
Wow
coupelikeacaravan 10 months ago
what year was this?
izwald1 10 months ago
A true sign of greatness is to be humble. Sir Akira Kurosawa you deserve every bit of not only this award, but also the recognition for your brilliance, genius, and a revolutionary foresight to film making. You have inspired George Lucas and Steven Spielberg the two greatest film directors of this generation. It is obvious how honored they were to hand this Oscar to you to show their gratitude for the inspiration they drew from your genius. I tip my hat to a true legend of the film making.
ObeeLektro 10 months ago
better than the american directors ... actually they are not americans ... all italians ... americans are low life motherfuckers ... japanese people hate americans .. so do i.
AliJalal93 11 months ago
Steven Spielberg looks a lot like Noam Chomsky here..
aparab82 11 months ago
what year was this?
BF3blog 11 months ago
Hmmm... I think Kurosawa Akira is really a well-respected film making, judging from the deserving claps they did for him (and oh, those smiles, too.)
cheerfulwitcher 1 year ago
The goodness of Kurosawa's movie is not understood though I am Japanese.
sakaguchikazz 1 year ago
i'm stunned at the people laughing in the background - obviously there are people who don't recognise his visionary status in cinema
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Academy award is very complicated and not clear.
Many people and even wikipedia misunderstand it.
The truth is below.
There are many Special Award or Honorary Award recipients.
But, Kurosawa received the "Special Honorary award"
★Only 2 persons received this special prize in the history of Academy award.
★Another person is Charlie Chaplin.
And later one man added to this list, Ferrini.
So, at the time of 2011, Only 3 persons received this special prize in the history of Academy award.
SamuraiTogo 1 year ago
Where's the sunset scene from ? Kagemusha ?
MangaPlCTURE 1 year ago
Wow, Kurosawa was freaking tall.
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@NOUFGT Nope. Kurosawa had an average 6' height. Spielberg & Lucas are too short.
RockoStylezFlyest 3 weeks ago
@NOUFGT Just because he's Japanese doesn't mean he has to be small hahah
BrokenTreeProd 6 days ago
When it was?
Cherishhhh 1 year ago
@Cherishhhh I t was 90 when he was 80 y o. thanks.
nobinobiii 1 year ago
@nobinobiii Thank you)
Cherishhhh 1 year ago
At this time, George Lucas have not lost his jaw yet...
lastcontinent 1 year ago 4
What fucking assholes were laughing in the background?
wesgriff1 1 year ago 40
@wesgriff1 Assholes who haven't got a fucking clue which end is up. This guy could eat them for breakfast.
ShamusMacGuffin 6 days ago
wow, george lucas is so freaking thin...
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wow a thin Lucas... must have been before he got fat living off star wars toys... and jesus !! what's going on with Spielberg's hair??? looks like Hitler !
snafflefilms 1 year ago
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wow a thin Lucas... must have been before he got fat living off star wars toys... and jesus !! what's going on with Spielberg's hair??? looks like Hitler !
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snafflefilms 1 year ago
Kurosawa rocked and his film will rock my world until I die.
Ezol1 1 year ago
Spielberg's hair also deserved honors.
ExtraTERRORestrial 1 year ago 4
Whats the film at 4:01, in colour?
xaxie1 1 year ago
@xaxie1 Kagemusha.
bonescraper666 1 year ago
@xaxie1 Ran
BobbitsWorld 1 year ago
master and maestro, no other words required
212987456 1 year ago
Kurosawa saying he doesn't understand cinema reminded me of Socrates saying he knew nothing. It's a sign of timeless genius. He definitely at least two films that could be considered the greatest ever made, and many more than are clearly the works of a master. My favourite director
Emerald1234S 1 year ago 4
I have never seen a movie by Kurosawa that has disappointed me. The closest I can think of is in "Rhapsody in August" when Richard Gere comes out and ruins the film. Thats just me though Im not fond of him.
chauncymcbaddass 1 year ago
he should've gotten an oscar for ran, that movie was just unbelivably ...not even good,not even amazeing, or great or terrific, just ...one of the greatest films you'll ever see, when you see it you know your watching a master at his finest but not his peak.
YouriH190 1 year ago 4
George Lucas and Steven Speilberg >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> James Cameron and Peter Jackson. Sorry but it's true!
darthqueen45 1 year ago 4
@darthqueen45 lol faggot..
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@darthqueen45 Akira Kurosawa is better than all of those fellows,George Lucas and Steven Speilberg were even inspired by Kurosawa's movies :)
GentlemanGhost1 1 year ago
@darthqueen45 Akira Kurosawa,Brian De Palma,Francis Ford Coppola,Clint Eastwood,John Woo,George Lucas, Neil Burger,Isaac Florentine, Joe Johnston and Peter Flinth.Sorry but true!
GentlemanGhost1 1 year ago
@GentlemanGhost1 okay whatever
darthqueen45 1 year ago
"I don't feel I deserve this. I don't feel that I understand cinema. To grasp the true essence of cinema is very very difficult."
This is why Akira Kurosawa remained a step above the others. He was very sincere in terms of what he said. He was always a student of cinema -- always with eyes open, ears listening, always wanting to learn more, always listening to the magic of cinema, and never content with saying "enough -- I know all I need to know." That is why he was great.
chrisman737 1 year ago 3
@chrisman737
Nice comment.. you explained exactly explained what was on my mind after watching this.
ProjectNinjaSlime 11 months ago
....his interpreter....she was one of the sensee at my college who taught beginning japanese xDDDD
-i love kurosawa-san's films...<3
chidoriookami 1 year ago
@chidoriookami she is a good translator
KabuKabuForex 8 months ago
@KabuKabuForex most definitely :D
chidoriookami 8 months ago
Awards never mean shit be they oscars on grammy's or any of that crap. Real artists don't care about that stuff, they care about the work.
TRE1275 1 year ago 3
most of the great directors have 1 or 2 masterpieces to their name but Kurosawa has at least 7 or 8.
pearlpitt 1 year ago 4
@pearlpitt : You are right.... it is difficult to find such a consistency in other filmmakers... that is why I consider Kurosawa as having one of the most interesting film careers ever.
cougar776 1 year ago
worst hair ever Steven!
ferocious78 1 year ago
Akira Kurosawa: " I don't feel that I understand cinema yet " He is a legend
apleno 1 year ago 6
Is the man modest, or what?!! He deserves much more than a dinky award and an ovation from mainly half-baked "actors" and film/movie makers. Where's the justice?
emidore 1 year ago
"......they have been responsable for 8 out of 10 of the highest grossing films..... it's an incredible creative achievement...." duhhhhhhhhhhhh???????????????????
CREATIVE achievement? No it's friggin not!!!
Just as McDonalds are not the best selling restaurants in the world because they provide the best nutritional food.... you Hollywood schmuck!
Professicchio 1 year ago
illuminati mind control SCUM
stett99 1 year ago
Akira Kurosawa is even more awesome then Spielberg's haircut.
JacktheRipTaylor 1 year ago 39
@JacktheRipTaylor don't know about that, the haircut is pretty sweet
xavtron 1 year ago
Kurosawa was certainly one of the most copied Filmmakers in history. The Seven Samauri became The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo became Last Man Standing, etc.
jamdawg 1 year ago
@jamdawg "Yojimbo" also became "A Fistful of Dollars"..."Although the film was advertised in trailers as "the first film of its kind", the plot and to an extent the cinematography was based almost entirely on Akira Kurosawa's film Yojimbo (written by Kurosawa and Ryuzo Kikushima), and was the subject of a successful lawsuit by Yojimbo's producers. Kurosawa remained insistent that he receive compensation. He wrote Leone: "It is a very fine film, but it is my film."~wiki
GentlemanGhost1 1 year ago 3
@GentlemanGhost1 thanks for the quote it made me laugh haha. it's true the similarities are ridiculous, i can't believe they thought they'd get away with it. advertising it as the first film of it's kind pisses me off, but despite loving kurosawa and especially yojimbo i still dig the hell out of fistful of dollars.
clicheguevera4 1 year ago
You can't really say Hollywood sucks without giving a reason why. Only about 2 or 3 directors are as a good as Kurosawa. Probably, Scorsese and Spielberg, but great American movies are still being made. There Will Be Blood and No Country for ex., both have two of the most perfect scripts I've ever heard. Does every movie have to be so serious anyway? Terminator was a great movie because it's awesome, Kurosawa's movies are great because they suck you into the characters emotions.
bobb328 1 year ago
None of those Hollywood Illuminati worshipping Zionist pay-cheque collecting pathetic excuses of actors in the audience should EVER be in the the PRESENCE of the GENIUS that is Akira Kurosawa!
I've only watched "Ran", "Throne of Blood" , "Red Beard" and "Rashomon" and I already know that he's a fucking MASTER OF CINEMA!
fernandoiscrazy 1 year ago
So that's the applause that one of the greates filmakers of all time get's in Hollywood.
Pathetic realy pathetic.
RFTL 1 year ago
The man is at a different level.
He's just extraordinary.
Akira \m/
arjunkaul 1 year ago
I have seen Hiden Fortress on TCM-Turner Classic Movies and Ran on Sundance Channel
Digatone 1 year ago
@Digatone Hidden Fortress
Digatone 1 year ago
Hidden Fortress = Star Wars (with space bells and whistles) and also I agree that the Oscars mean jack squat.
runningwaterpro 1 year ago
@runningwaterpro I'm fairly sure that Lucas has been quoted as saying that he based Star Wars on Hidden Fortress, much better than James Cameron taking Pocahontas, putting it in space, then pretending he's a genius for writing such an "amazing" movie
xavtron 1 year ago
what modesty. maybe it's part of being an amazing artist--the feeling and motivation to always want to improve upon oneself. love him even more now.
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hulu55565 1 year ago
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lolololol funnyyyyyyy stupid jap monkeyyy
hulu55565 1 year ago
@hulu55565 Are you retarded?!
13hehe 1 year ago
@13hehe are you gay? this is the funniest ceremony i have ever seen
hulu55565 1 year ago
If Einstein didn't understand the theory of relativity, then Kurosawa didn't understand cinema.
A genius master film-maker.
ScorseseKubrick 1 year ago 2
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Great comment, Cheers!
It should be said that Kurosawa not only thought us how to be great artists, but also how to be a great human beings. His films are full of humanity and all the violence in them are actually calls against violence.
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DivineSinners 1 year ago 3
@klausweasley To begin with, Hollywood-slaved movie critics should be burned at the stake. LOL Otherwise, many Americans won't realize mammonish Hollywood sucks.
gnanashi 1 year ago
I find it amusing some people are dissing this tribute as "inadequate" - How can this tribute be improved?
klausweasley 1 year ago
@klausweasley i think the tribute was not so bad; just the montage they gave on screen focused too much on violence and missed some of the real cathartic and polemic moments of his cinema. But Kurosawa's speech was so great. Japanese modesty bothers me most of time because I find it dishonest, but here I totally believe in his humility!
Jefugo 1 year ago 3
What a brutal tribute to one of the finest filmmakers of all time. They made his movies look like musicals...
And that standing ovation seemed so "forced"... not cool, hollywood.
ayoshi82 1 year ago
spielbergs hair in this is awesome
boogiebuddy01 1 year ago
akira is one of the greatest directors of all time...way better than spielberg and lucas
coolmartfloyd 1 year ago 6
Happy Brithday Kurosawa!
AMOVIEGUY14 1 year ago
This was terribly inadequate to what he deserved. There is not one director or anyone else in the movie industry who does not owe this man tribute for their craft. Yet, there was a time in Japan that he was ridiculed and called crazy. How blind and self absorbed are some people. His movies are masterpieces of humanity.
mvies77 1 year ago 33
nice hair style mr spielberg... XD
kadavert 1 year ago 5
Akiwa Kurosawa was a visionary director whose talent we've rarely seen in cinema's history. A wonderful man with beautiful thoughts and incredible imagination.
A true artist. God bless his soul.
DerAdventurer 1 year ago 7
Totally rubbish. This special keep-up-appearances ceremony became insincere shitty treatment for Kurosawa. His Honorary Oscar in 1989 compares unfavorably with his Venezia's Career Golden Lion in 1982.
The funniest thing was that his every single word in this short speech sounded cruelly cynical about Hollywood and Oscar. LOL
gnanashi 1 year ago
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes...who can tell me what that actually mean...
doggiestyle247 1 year ago
It means this: In a world where we are constantly being lied to by people who want to manipulate and control us (government, corporations, advertisers, military, clergy), it is the artist's duty to present truths that would otherwise be forgotten.
echomedia 1 year ago 5
If you watch some of his best films (red beard, dodes Ka-den, even the seven samurai) he never shies from portraying the good the bad and the ugly in all of us. That is in every character he creates. And yet at the same time he truly seems to see them with love and respect. In this aspect he was truly exceptional.
savebury 1 year ago 3
i bet the director of that recent giant robot movie never saw akiras movies.
knight24474 1 year ago 7
@knight24474
you mean michael bay
salgadosroman 1 year ago
I totally agree with you...
masterkombat 1 year ago
The emperor
SNKTHX2000 2 years ago
Love Both Of These Guys, I want to Play In One of Their Movie One Day
thecomedygang 2 years ago
-Jayiijay
couldn't have said it better.
awsomeoggy 2 years ago
Kurosawa was undeniably one of the four or five greatest masters of the cinema (at worst). The standing ovation was lame considering who he was, Cher's was bigger a few years earlier. That's the Academy for you, I'm surprised they even heard of him (many didn't; and I doubt many heard of Ozu or Mizoguchi). And where were his Director Oscars or even nominations for Rashomon, Ikiru and Seven Samurai?? He finally got nominated for masterpiece Ran but lost to Out of Africa. Oscars mean nothing.
jayiijay 2 years ago 79
@jayiijay , Well said. Though I really can't stand Tom Cruise, at least he knew who Kurosawa was and really seemed to be moved by the ceremony.
chrisman737 1 year ago
@jayiijay For a guy that says the Oscars mean nothing, you sure seem to care an awful lot about whose films get nominated for what.
Spurple 1 year ago
@jayiijay I agree completely
curak76 1 year ago 3
@jayiijay I agree with what you are saying, but I'm not mad about it. I think it is a great thing that I am one of a few people who have discovered what an astounding master Kurosawa is. If everyone felt the same way I do, the feeling would be diminished in me, or perhaps not there at all. So I am greatful, in part, that few love kurosawa's films the way I do. Kurosawa never got a best directing oscar, neither did Kubrick or Hitchcock, & for me, it makes their films all the more spectacular.
TheInfamousJosh 1 year ago 2
@TheInfamousJosh Yeah it sucks when directors get the recognition they deserve.
gtron30 1 year ago
@TheInfamousJosh I agree with you,I have never ever seen a movie that could top "The Seven Samurai"...I love Akira Kurosawa and his great masterpieces :)
GentlemanGhost1 1 year ago
@jayiijay there are certainly a large number of brilliant directors who never one an academy award for it, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Werner Herzog, Fellini, Howard Hawks, Sidney Lumet, Ingmar Bergmen, Robert Altman, David Lynch, Kubrick and both Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino have been robbed several times more recently
xavtron 1 year ago 3
@jayiijay oscars are funny. can't believe people still think those awards are credible. the best of the best never won any.
chikaiskusni 1 year ago
@jayiijay, well said. That Ran actually lost to Out of Africa was astounding. Oscars are all politics.
chrisman737 1 year ago
@jayiijay i know who Ozu is but sorry i have not heard of Mizoguchi, ill look into him
LongJonBronze 1 year ago
@jayiijay i know he's a master director but to be fair i don't see much else they could've actually done. i mean, they screwed him over in the past but they couldn't do much about that then other than this. oscars are popularity contests anyway so i dont think anyone really cares
inrwizards 1 year ago 3
@jayiijay I wouldn't say that they mean NOTHING, but they are definitely incredibly biased.
nonserviamreviews 1 year ago
@nonserviamreviews true, and hey, it could be a lot worse. As much as I hate how the Oscars normally choose the safer, less risk-taking, less intelligent and more heart-warming tripe that usually comes out, at least they aren't the Spike TV Video Game Awards. If that were the case, Michael Bay would already have a Lifetime Achievement Award and no one would even know who Kurosawa is.
gimpyguitarist 6 days ago
Modesty is really a rare trait in people especially here in America, so much that (in my friends case) it is often confused as uncertainty instead. The sign of a true artist (as opposed to an entrapeneur posing as an artist) is a true artist always feels he can do better.
One thing I must admit though was, he was a lot taller than I expected.
xxGing 2 years ago 4
Interpreter did a really good job. She translated and covered very well.
Masaru1985 2 years ago 3
kurosawa was and will be one of the best movie directors in history his work is full of humanity.
drchepa 2 years ago 6
nuff said man, long live sensei kurosawa san.
popol159 2 years ago
He is such an influence on movie making today, they should have had every movie director up there to give tribute to Mr. Kurosawa.
musicman9982007 2 years ago 2
Hilarious haircut:-)
TheBAGGEN 2 years ago
you're so right..Anyway, Kurosawa was a true Genius.
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TheBAGGEN 2 years ago
If Akira Kurosawa doesn't understand cinema, then no one does!
Such modesty from a legendary director.
arnyjk 2 years ago 8
They gave him a standing ovation, but I think they should have been up on their feet so much quicker than that.
captainadam1 2 years ago 6
he is such a modest man for opening so many doors to so many film makers what a legend
bihangi 2 years ago 22
This mere man has done what few have ever accomplished, making pure flowing art shoot out of a projector. I weep at every frame of his movies, cause each second is cinema in its truest form.
Jmanlol 2 years ago 5
I still don't know how he got the arrow to go through Toshiro Mifune's neck in Throne of Blood -- damn it looks authentic!
christopherhoughton1 2 years ago 11
what year was this?
Casarzino 2 years ago
On 1990 ,he was 80 years old.
nobinobiii 2 years ago 3
thanks for posting..do not ever recall this oscar presentation.. wow, kurosawa.. so humble and thoughtful.. given his films, especially his earlier classics id expect no less..then for him to acknowledge, spielberg and lucas by first names.. thats historical to film students like myself...
hardcopy01 2 years ago 2
IKIRU!!!
one of my favorite movies of all time
jazzmanEE 2 years ago 2
@jazzmanEE try watching IKINAI it's a great movie too.
kmiroshkhin 2 years ago
r u sure there's a kurosawa movie alled ikinai? or any othert movie called ikinai..? cause i cant seem to find anything
thanks
jazzmanEE 2 years ago
@jazzmanEE i think IKINAI was a film in the late 90's directed by Kitano Takeshi's assistant director. (i haven't seen it though)
pentonvilleroad 1 year ago
What a Legend
junglemad80 2 years ago 2
The whole audience should have been bowing as soon as he was mentioned, but unfortunately half of them did not appear to know who he was, oh the shame.
Pyrrhic24 2 years ago 9
why is the audience laughing when he starts laughing? Is it becasue he can't speak english??
UltimateSerge 2 years ago
Maybe because the woman just translated a funny sentence into English beforehand.
marvellousmadser 2 years ago
look at those two rapists up there with their dork haircuts
thefriendsociety 2 years ago
you refering to south park?
Necrodermis 2 years ago
im refering to film and art
thefriendsociety 2 years ago
The presenter is Jack Valenti, long-time president of the MPAA and considered the father of the modern movie rating system.
Zanderith 2 years ago
damn rat bastard
thefriendsociety 2 years ago
None has achieved close to kurosawa´s talent and powerful filmmaking. Just the best director ever. And yet... "I think i don´t understand what film is". A lesson to all the award winners.
zascandil2000 2 years ago 10
is that anchor supermans father
rajendrabiswas 2 years ago
sorry??
zascandil2000 2 years ago
Maybe, my favortie filmmaker of all time.
JacobEliRossSC 2 years ago 4
even though he was called master of film, he said "I think I don't understand what the movie is". what a great man...
mildseven73 2 years ago 10
I love Kurosawa's films. Especially Seven Samurai.
lasthuman1 2 years ago 8
Thank you for sharing it. Kurosawa Kantoku contributed amazing things to film industory and humanity.
BeingSunshine 2 years ago 2