Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (Part 2 of 6)

[sazal2010]

The edge of a samurai sword is drawing a bird on the ground, a tiger is watching with all its agility and calmness, the thunderbolt is tearing apart the cloudy sky, a poem is written, it is to be grasped with all its mirror images...Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune: The Samurai Sword and the Tiger!!!

[sshakababy]

Do any of you fell that John Woo has no knowledge about Kurosawa's technical strengths, he seems to know as much about Kurosawa as I know about Shaq o' Neal , which is nothing because I never watched basketball, never played it either.

[BunchofMovieVideos]

Could someone please tell me why Seven Samurai is so great? Apart from a lot of fighting, what else really happens..?

[BeefstuYuhu]

@BunchofMovieVideos

If you've seen the Magnificent Seven, you have an idea of what the story was about... except that Seven Samurai had even more content. It did have a lot to do with battle, but used the impending conflict (and the conflict) to explore various facets of human nature.

Kurosawa's is a case for younger people like me, where we've seen so many people imitate or draw from his work that his stuff may not seem so original anymore... except of course that it was.

[kinginthecorner]

I only wish this were a bit more informative.

[orixaofthewind]

at 03:30: "his acceptance of Evil", the representation of all Natural forces in Man was the Kurosawa gift to us all. His fearlessness in facing our human failures have helped me grow in ways I never imagined possible.

[alanandrewmass]

This is absolutely immense. Much like Kurosawa's films. Alex Cox knows his subject very well and the interviewees are fantastic (Nakadai!!!)

[sickofital]

@alanandrewmass

Although I am grateful to gza76 for putting this up as a tribute to the great man, I'm actually not a fan of Alex Cox's work. There was a much better documentary made by Adam Low a couple of years after this one. Instead of interviewing random Hollywood directors on their opinions, it focuses more on him and the people who worked closest to him.

P.S. Happy 100th Birthday, Akira Kurosawa!

[SpikeJet2736]

Here's a tagline for ya.

Seven Samurai: So good, it'll prevent you from getting lucky.

[MegaMan123ABC]

Damn right! The Last Emperor.

[drchepa]

kurosawa is the topof the top, for me is the best.

[rambocop1]

The Emperor forever... thx for posting this man..

[textthing]

Thanks for posting this. It's great to see these priceless interviews with the sensei's old collaborators, as well as tributes from directors all over the world. He remains the Emperor, but in a good way.