Showing posts with label kurosawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kurosawa. Show all posts
Friday, August 31, 2018

THE OUTRAGE - FILMSTRUCK

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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2009. Hollywood was all over Akira Kurosawa from the get-go. Not in the "W...
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Sunday, November 27, 2016

AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS - #842

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Akira Kurosawa is a filmmaker I discovered in high school, in the 1980s when VCRs and video stores made all kinds of movies newly acces...
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Monday, November 23, 2015

IKIRU (Blu-ray) - #221

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Akira Kurosawa was still a relatively young man in 1952 when he made his elegy for old age, Ikiru . Yet, somehow the director still man...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

WHEN HORROR CAME TO SHOCHIKU: GOKE, BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL/THE LIVING SKELETON - ECLIPSE SERIES 37

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Well, if there was any prevailing motto for the horror movies being made at the Japanese studio Shochiku in the 1960s, it was “anything...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI (Blu-Ray) - #596

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Hideo Gosha's  Three Outlaw Samurai could easily be dismissed as a simple exercise in genre, but to do so would be to fail to se...
Friday, December 30, 2011

NIKKATSU NOIR: TAKE AIM AT THE POLICE VAN - ECLIPSE SERIES 17

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As 2012 comes to a close, this trio of reviews of Seijun Suzuki movies actually catches me up for the weeks I missed in November. This ma...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

HARAKIRI (Blu-Ray) - #302

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The year is 1630. The capital of Japan is still under its original name, Edo, and though samurais still exist, the shogunate has severel...