Akira Kurosawa: Influences and Influence Part 2

[BimLanders]

Bravo. This is a very well made documentary for a high school project.

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Very helpful,thanks!

[RobertoWatchin]

i actually clapped when the part where Kurosawa won the Oscar.

too many times its been too late

[savannahadi]

Meet Asian women #lushfmlk.info#

[gjford1951]

thank you for this document. It is coherent and brings together information that is scattered in different places. Very helpful for thinking about and appreciating Kurosawa. (I loved Dodeskaden, btw).

[duroche53]

Not to completely spoil you, but if you turned this out as a high school project, you are the next Ken Burns

[coolmartfloyd]

one of the greatest directors of all time....way better than spielberg and lucas combine

[turkishheadstand]

was really really hoping there was a part 3,4,5... to this. Very well put together and surprisingly informative for only 17 mins. Thanks for posting

[juanan48]

I just wanted to say thank you and great job for this video. It is very well done and i just wanted to congratulate you for this. Highschool? Really? Amazing.

[litoperuusa]

I am not american nor japanese so my view is different. Since I was a kid in Peru I have seen the work of Akira K. I enjoyed "sankuokai" a TV serie made from his anime/manga. Then I enjoyed its copy: "Star Wars". Americans like to call it an "influence" to the rest of the word is a "Copy". One thing is to be influenced by reading a wide variety of western or russian novels and another a "Copy". the 1990 award was nothing to what he really deserved, a Consolation Price. Thank you for your video.

[lebeauprof]

Hello. I was wondering if I could show your video to my afterschool film class. It is quite good! I've been looking for a way to introduce Kurosawa to my 50plus film students and I'd love to show them your work. Let me know.

[cuchulain55]

rashomon was excellent.!:)

[gnanashi]

I think many West europeans must feel very annoying with your this clip.

Kurosawa should have not associated with a rubbish Hollywood so he didn't have to attempt suicide. He couldn't bear up under cruel ousting treatment from them. Poor Kurosawa!

[majesticmaniac]

brilliant work mate keep it up

[siemr3]

kurosawa is genius!

awesome!

[KnuckleBallz]

Awesome video. 5 stars

[talo91]

Awesome director

[p77a]

good work, but you might want to rename it to "Western Influences and Influence", as that's clearly the focus. AK was of course influence by Japanese filmmakers and had strong influence on the Japanese cinema. E.g. he consiered Kenji Mizoguchi the greatest Japanese director and admired the editing of Mikio Naruse. Also he adopted shortstories of Ryonosuke Akutagawa for Rashomon and writings of Hyakken Uchida for his final movie Madadayo. Still, great work! Will discuss it in my German blog :-)

[yv29nkl]

Sounds like "American=wise and generous, Japanese=ignorant". But his relation with Japan should not be underestimated. He was criticized but loved and highly respected, too. His problem of film making during 70's was not due to his unpopularity. It was due to a general decline (or quality change) of Japanese film industries. Finally, it should be noted that his suicide attempt was directly caused by the incident where Hollywood kicked him out of studio during shooting of "Tora! ^3".

[forbesnation]

Thanks for your insights. However, I had to base the content off of the books and materials available to me and that is basically what they said.

[yv29nkl]

You did fine within your limit. Books written by western authors take a similar viewpoint, since they probably want to believe they "found" Kurosawa. But he wasn't an outsider and had been in a Japanese mainstream for 30 years. He was a director who had already been highly successful within Japanese systems. He was one of a few directors, who could have enormous controls over his productions. Kurosawa was like our son and brother, who happened to gain enormous popularity among westerners.

[kurohune07]

yv29nkl, I've drawn the some sense. I'm a little bewildered by forbesnation's approach towards Japan and its people mainly because I happens to be one...but it is just us I suppose.

[yv29nkl]

Kurohune 07, whoever outstanding characters appear from Japan, US/European media try to separate them from Japan, emphasizing how they are NOT typical Japanese or how they were mistreated in Japan.....I am curious to know why they always do that. I wonder who would be the next target. Maybe, Hayao Miyazaki?

[forbesnation]

Well, I just reported what the research I did suggested...as you said, that is how Kurosawa is presented in Western books.

[Jadabh2]

I recently wrote an essay about this discrepancy between the western and Japanese view of Kurosawa....I'd be happy to share it with any one... just leave me your e-mail in a message and I'll send it to you. Rob x

[ohworldgirl]

The world as well as Japan recognizes it's wonderful contibution to cinema whether through Kurosawa, or Mizoguchi, or the wonderful Ozu with all of his touching family stories. Japan has a lot to offer the world of cinema, Kitano is well appreciated for his work and animator Shinkai's work is completly breath taking. So as far as Japan and the West is concercerned Keep it coming b/c we celebrate the work out of Japan as well as other countries.

[zascandil2000]

I think all of his movies were highly succesful within Japan with the sole exception of do-des-ka-den.

One of the things that shock me most at Kurosawa are his many influences: Dostoyevski, Ford, Tolstoi, Shakespeare... I know he had great japanese influences too, of course, he is VERY japanese too, but as I am a westerner and not familiar with japanese culture, those influences are harder to perceive.

Anyway i think he is by far the greatest film-maker of our time. Thanks him for all his work

[GlynTaft]

Godd documentry, kurosawa is the master of modern cinema and you have just enlightened this even further hopefully many people will watch and be educated, well done.

[isargin]

that's a great documentary you made there. good voiceover text and some really interesting clips and the editing and sound stuff was excellent! :)

[chatomaka]

Gracias maestro, gracias Akira por todo lo q nos de

jaste