Blood Throne and Ran would suggest you may br right.

Shakespeare isn’t high art

Was just going to say that.@@raymondjurie9047

@@gew393 What are the reasons you have for this opinion, if you would be good enough to elaborate?

Shakespeare is High & Low art. Ask Kurosawa...@@raymondjurie9047

Yeah I like how he highlighted the chase too, that last part of the movie really kicked it up in his filmography for me, one of the best sequences he did

Kurosawas auto bio is a great read..Paperback. ebay.

I was happy he even mentioned high and low. While it's one of his more known movies it's often ignored (along with stray dog) in favor of his samurai movies. I also enjoyed the bad sleep well.

I am reliving my high school Kurosawa obsession.

Roshomon was my first. Was amazing. Immediately bought the CC Yojimbo & Sanjuro blurays. Loved them both.

Yojimbo legitimately blew my fucking mind dude. I refused to believe it was as old as it was. He was so ahead of his time.

My favorite thing about this movie is how he uses the limitations of the camera as feature by making the shots reinforce the uneasiness of the town and the job was causing on the mc. Makes it feel a bit like there is someone stalking him from our point of view sometimes. But maybe i'm reading too much into it lol

You have excellent taste, sir 🙌🏼

Yojimbo is a masterpiece and everything is perfect in this movie. This is my second favorite movie after Seven Samurai. I love all the Kurosawa movies and he is the best director i the movie history.

Interestingly, High and Low was based on an American crime novel called "King's Ransom" by Evan Hunter (one of his "Ed McBain 87th Precinct" books).

That's not how I remember it!

I actually like Ran more. That's based on Shakespeare.

I would say for Rashomon lying is a part of it. But its more how perception, individual perspective, even the life every one of those characters had till this moment, which has a big impact how they see the same deed later on. And each of their interpretations get then into the memory of that moment. Its a genius piece of art.

And the concept of the Rashomon Effect… the genre should be called the “Rashomon _side_ effect”

If you can, I recommend reading "In a grove" (Yabu no naka), Akutagawa's short story on which Rashomon is based. It's interesting how differently the same effect is achieved in literature. Incidentally, Akutagawa also has an excellent short story called Rashomon, but that's a whole different thing.

Check out High and Low as well, it's a bit better than Stray Dog, but not Ikiru. And then there's his Samurai movies...

Ikiru is on a different level than just about any movie I've seen. It's amazing how well it's aged, it could go toe-to-toe with anything coming out today.

Fassbinder

No matter what you do, what you've seen, heard, or experienced, there's always a Japanese guy out there who did it better.

Kinda corny statement but I like that idea.

I think Kurosawa is among the greats too... but just off the top of my head: Orson Welles, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alfred Hitchcock, and... arguably Quentin Tarantino. Every movie by all of them was extremely high artistic and entertainment quality.

High and Low, Rashomon, SS for me. But I agree, they’re all spectacular.

I love how each character in a Kurosawa movie has their own prominent personality expressed through their body language. A small thing but adds immense world building and character depth.

Ikiru was made into "Living" recently with Bill Nighy.

Yojimbo* I believe the sequel to Yojimbo, Sanjuro, also had an influence on the sequel to A Fistful fo Dollars, A Few Dollars More.

@@Fergus316 My bad on the Typo and fat finger. You are right about the sequel which turned into ‘A Few Dollars more. The great acting by the Legendary ‘Mifune Toshiro’ also added greatly to those movies.

Yeah, Hader's great. Everyone of of his takes one movies is spot on.

I would imagine any and all of those seasoned improv and comedy types to be total cinephiles

Yeah you're right you don't get good without studying the great@@mannya.h.967

@@mannya.h.967 especially if they're writers

Kurosawa grew up watching cowboy movies so he made samurai movies that were copied into cowboy movies. A weird twist of fate.

I had forgotten Dersu Uzala was even a Kurosawa film. It's a favorite for me because of the subject matter. I always had an attraction he Russian far East. I got the book, Dersu the Trapper, after seeing the film. It's also worthwhile as a view of life in a very interesting place and time, though requires a tolerance for describing the birds encountered along the way.

@@Sensorium19 Yes, I really enjoyed the environment and the time period, and the character of Dersu was very compelling. I will be looking out for this book.

He’ll yeah, Throne of Blood is my fave too.

@@Vingul that ending !!!

@@Njbear7453 iconic m8.

Throne of blood is so cool with the supernatural folk lore ghost theme. Kurosawa and japanese directors seem to have many ghost story movies, i have not seen many yet myself

@@humanafterallTF2 You might enjoy «Kuroneko» and «Onibaba» in that case.

There's actually a 2022 British remake of Ikiru called "Living" which is also really good. That said, Kurosawa films are fantastic pieces of film history. I haven't seen all of his films but I have seen Seven Samurai, Ran, Kagemusha, and Throne of Blood. You should defo give his filmography a watch as he's one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Even Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars", the 1st film of the Dollars trilogy, was a copy of Yojimbo.

And he didn't even mention Rashōmon, which is essential Kurosawa and one of the greatest films ever made.

The greatest director

Kurosawa is so accomplished that this video only mentions one of his samurai movies ("Yojimbo" and only because it's the one mentioned in the show) despite the fact that he's creditted with essentially inventing the samurai action movie. Imagine discovering someone like Sergio Leone had an entire filmography of deeply moving small-scale human dramas and light comedies as well as all the Spaghetti Westerns. Kurosawa's influence on the rest of world cinema is seismic. Speaking of Leone, "The Man with no Name" is directly inspired by the lead character of "Yojimbo." "The Magnificent Seven" is a direct remake of "Seven Samurai" (And the basic outline of the Seven Samurai plot has been re-used by everything from Pixar's "A Bug's Life" to Marvel's first "Avengers" movie.) "The Hidden Fortress" was where George Lucas got Leia, Obi-Wan, The Droids, and Vader from. "Rashomon" was the first movie to show the same sequence of events from different character's points of view. And if you like Shakespeare, check out "Throne of Blood" and "Ran" - his takes on "Macbeth" and "King Lear"

@@lyletuck Rashomon literally created a whole way of storytelling with false narratives that made viewers question if each character's recounting was a lie

Agreed ! for me he was the original "Clint Eastwood" 😁

That’s my favourite Kurosawa film. Up to that point I hadn’t seen anything like it. I was hooked as well. He’s definitely in the pantheon of filmmakers.

Patton Oswald?! Ew dude

Have you watched the clip of Patton talking about Ikiru? He’s who made me want to watch it, Oswalt knows everything about film, just like Hader.

What's his problem

I saw it last year and I concur. I hadn't realized coming in that it was a Kurosawa remake till I saw the intro credits.

Another Dreams fan! That is the film that made me a Kurosawa fan!

@@zacharyessey5904 Dreams is awesome. The Van Gogh sequence with Martin Scorsese was a genius stroke

I agree. Seems easily possible. Barry was a big learning experience for Hader, according to interviews I have heard. He got stellar results out of the gate. Now people will trust him with bigger projects and his imagination has probably grown.

I loved My Darling Clementine! great picture

Barry is amazing. If you haven’t seen it, don’t watch clips. Watch the entire show. It is AMAZING

"Mr. Inbetween" is the closest to Barry that i can think of An Australian show, i think it's only 3 seasons The protagonist is also a hitman, but a father too, and he's trying to juggle those 2 lives But he's nothing like Barry He's 100% sure that what he does is justified ... "they had it coming" ...

Better Call Saul Killing Eve Fargo (the TV show)

Mr. Inbetween is brilliant . The scenes with his brother are heart felt .

Better Call Saul is the only thing that comes close for me.@@mr.doctorcaptain1124

Also rightwingers

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Most psychopaths have a fine understanding of emotional expression. In fact they often use that to prey upon victims (often these particular ones are called 'sociopaths' by many, but clinically "sociopaths" are just psychopaths, there is no clinical sociopathy). Just because they don't have it themselves, doesn't mean that they don't understand it. The heavily autistic are the ones that can't decipher others expressions or body language or emotional impact.

I have a theory that only psychopaths enjoy films, which then explains society exactly, unlike your theory.

@@xxxYYZxxx Elaborate, why is this?

Seven Samurai

Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Ikiru are all essential watches. By the time you finish those you'll be in love with Kurosawa's style.

Stray Dogs (1949) is a great place to start, along with Drunken Angel (1948). Both are early post-war successes announcing AK's transition into greatness, which properly kicks off with must-see masterpieces like Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954)

Seven Samurai is his magnum opus (but be warned that it is very long, sitting at 4 hours. Still very entertaining and easy to watch), but Yojimbo is another masterpiece that feels very approachable to modern sensibilities.

Rashomon, Ikiru, Drunken Angel, Dersu Uzala

Exactly! He peaked in the 20th Century.

Lol... stop worshipping fame and fortune, also marry someone from outside your town.

Then why did you watch the video?

@@eduardosuarez2414what a strange thing to do.

And you think your opinion is _soooooo_ much better!? You’re acting like such a Jack-off.

Surely that can't be including the trade deficit?