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The Idiot 1951
Kurosawa Marathon #12: The Idiot
Based on the 1869 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Kurosawa's favourite author, the Emperor's ambitious adaptation of the esteemed literary classic was originally around four and a half hours long. After a negatively recieved preview screening, he was pressured by the studio to cut it down to roughly two hours and forty-five minutes with the remaining footage being lost with the passage of time.
I am not too familiar with Dostoyevsky's work to really comment on…
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Rashomon 1950
Kurosawa Marathon #11: Rashomon
It is Rashomon.
There is little I can say of this film that hasn't already been said a million times over it's lifetime nearing 70 years.
It was his and Toshiro Mifune's breakout film in the western hemisphere after it's first screening at the Venice Film Festival in 1951, resulting in a Golden Lion and his first Academy award the following year.
It paved the way for more global successes in the following two decades, going…
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Samurai Reincarnation 1981
Makai Tenshō or Samurai Reincarnation, directed by Kinji Fukasaku, was one of those movies I just happened to come across and fall under it's hypnotic gaze. Visually the film is incredible, with creative set design and a particularly amazing end fight scene inside a burning pagoda!
The setting, characters and scenarios bear a lot of similarity to the comparably more popular animated film 'Ninja Scroll' by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and that is largely due to the fact it derives from the…
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2015
This movie has gotten popular the same way Hitler came into power. Germany was a great country but the economy went to shit and the people were desperate for new leadership regardless of how shitty it would be. That made it easy for them to love Hitler because he was their only choice. George Lucas created a beloved movie series but over time he made a few mistakes such as altering his films and put some bad shit in the…
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