How To Use Kurosawa In A Sentence
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa's breakthrough film, Cure (1997) proved he knows horror better than the rest.
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Even Bryan Singer cites Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon as the inspiration for his nonpareil take on the thriller in The Usual Suspects.
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Kurosawa initiated his best work in 1948 with Drunken Angel , in which he teamed Takashi Shimura ( as a blustery alcoholic doctor ) and a young Toshiro Mifune ( as a hotheaded gangster ) .
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While Kurosawa is known mostly for his historically accurate, minutely observed period pieces and swashbucklers, Ozu sought drama in the simple rhythms of life in the modern Japanese family.
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Kurosawa presents his episodic tale with unmatched visual grace.
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Kurosawa is more fascinated with periods of civil war, periods in which rigid social strictures have broken down and individuals are unmoored from their old roles, their old duties.
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And Jet is even better in the period epic tragedy THE WARLORDS, which has a little wirework but which is mostly realistic Kurosawa-style mass warfare, set during the Taiping Rebellion.
Mini Reviews Too Late
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Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" (1954) is not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century.
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The episode begins with an unusual title card, specifically mentioning Akira Kurosawa, an influential film director greatly admired by George Lucas.
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Although it is a very important topic, it is not deep. Anciently the study and the use for reference of Akira Kurosawa emphasize particularly on his artifice of cinematics .
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Most stories of Kurosawa fandom begin the same way: with a bootlegged copy of one his films from the mid to late Nineties.
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He was unkind to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, while devoting a whole essay to the adroit but decidedly lesser The Hidden Fortress.
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In 1954, the film "Seven Samurai" directed by Akira Kurosawa is known as the pinnacle of the Japanese entertainment film.
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It's the kind of benedictory statement one would expect at the end of a director's career, but Kurosawa's 1952 drama preceded his massive international success
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As the president, his staff and, most significantly, his frequently deranged First Lady pussyfooted around the paneled rooms of his West Coast ranch compound, eavesdropping on each other and then communicating in whispers the latest fragment of update, it began to feel like one of those Kurosawa dramas about feudal lords -- the Macbeth-based Throne of Blood, say, courtesy of FOX.
Tom Gliatto: Beyond 24
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Twenty-one of Kurosawa's storyboards are also reproduced in the booklet.
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Both beautiful and terrifying, the film combines Shakespeare with Kurosawa's unbeatable direction.
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Kurosawa draws the best possible performances from these actors by staying true to the source's roots as a play.
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Kurosawa's film conveys these messages without utilizing crude sadomasochistic images, yet it's a much more frightening film.
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Beautifully shot as a blend of Kurosawa’s slow motion, Leone’slong shots, and Miike’shyper-kinetic action allof which is reinforced by the climatic showdown between sword and gun.
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In the same way that Twin Peaks was David Lynch riffing on the soap opera genre, so does Kurosawa riff on the family drama in Bright Future.
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Kurosawa's, by contrast, exaggerate the theme, casting it in the hyperbolic terms of a dread-inducing and sometimes even apocalyptic horror.
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Saw a Kurosawa movie after a long time. A very dark retelling of an anyway dark Shakespeare drama.
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Akira Kurosawa made three films based on Shakespeare plays.
