Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (Part 3 of 6)

Alex Cox's documentary on film director Akira Kurosawa.

First broadcast in 1999

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Akira
• Kurosawa
• Alex
• Cox
• Bertolucci
• Francis
• Ford
• Coppola
• Hodges
• Donald
• Richie
• Verhoeven
• Woo
• Andrei
• Konchalovsky

[Bearod35]

Thanks for the upload....

Great documentary.

[Brickhouseent]

The signed picture of John Ford to Akira Kurosawa would be worth SO MUCH!

[squamish4244]

@xaxie1 He's the white hero!  Just like in Dances with Wolves! And who knows how many other movies. But seriously, Yojimbo could be set at the very end of the samurai era, in the 1860's, when revolvers were available and Japan was open to foreigners.

[MacaroniCombat]

@natashkk I'm not sure that i understood her explanation. Strings inside she says but then i ask inside what ^^

If you could give me a more precise explanation that would be great :D

[natashkk]

Finally I know how he managed to film the ending scene of Throne of Blood!! Amazing insight! Thanks for posting!

[xaxie1]

@sfccjustinrodgers

I have, it is horrible, too cliched and no respect to the samurai, just an action movie.

I mean cmon, Tom is the only survivor?

[sfccjustinrodgers]

@xaxie1 samurai as depicted in a lot of these films existed well up to the ww2 era. watch the last samurai about the era.. movie with tom cruise in it

[crock703]

4:22 one of my favorite film shots ever!

[xaxie1]

What time is Yojimbo ment to be set, I mean revolvers and Samurai swords in the same time?

[dojufitz]

I like listening to his friend and daughter.....but listening to some of these fellow directors is.....they are so filmy & wet. lol.