Was Akira Kurosawa really that good of a director?

Was? I didnt even know he was sick

RIP F F F

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>film critics are leftists and overrated him since he isn't white
Shit, that's probably the dumbest thing I'm gonna read this weekend.

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WATCH HIS NON SAMURAI WESTERNS

YOJIMBO IS BASED THOUGH

Ok
What's his best and worst flick so I can watch them?

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His best is Akira. Naruto and One Piece is shit. Skip them.

He was pretty old.
>Rashomon's director, cinematographer, and writer lived to 88, 91, and 100

How about you stop being a huge pathetic pleb and start watching movies? This is pretty much the easiest hobby in the world - sit on your ass and watch the fucking movies. And maybe in 10 years when you have several thousand movies under your belt you could start discussing them and actually have something to contribute.

Yes but Ozu > Kurosawa

what's the name of this kino?

Throne of Blood and Rashomon are both kino as well.

Rashomon. That and Seven Samurai are probably his two most well-known and influential films, although my personal favorite by him is Ran.

Rashomon is the one in black and white. Not sure what the Nipcel colored one is from.

Thanks, I'll give it a look

Ran is one of the best looking films of all time, definitely watch that one too.

is Ran the one where like a thousand horses die at the end or is that the other big epic

>it's a kino Kurosawa blood spray
really fascinating guy. finding out he tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists and his throats really adds something to the visceral yet procedural nature of his kinos

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That sounds like Kagemusha.

Ozu is fantastic but he's still a little overrated, people speak of his films as if every single frame is a perfect embodiment of the human condition

his movies are like fucking crack the moment you finish one you want to watch another it's so odd

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tbf many mediocre or bad directors get acclaim because of their le artsy notoriety or because they get pushed by (((critics))).
Not the case of Kurosawa, but it's a common thing. Like Von Trier.

this
it happened with Refn who just lucked out with one kino by accident and never made anything good after
Kurosawa definitely isn't a meme though. hacks who get acclaim usually get exposed after a while

he had an amazing sense for framing, costumes and battle scenes.

youtube.com/watch?v=aA9P1VRTxIY

RASHOMON IS OVERRATED AND ONLY GETS OFF ON THE "HURR DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF WHAT HAPPENED" GIMMICK
there I said it.

>Refn
another perfect example, yeah.

>That stuntman actually getting tackled by a horse then ran over by one.

IT HELPS NEARLY EVERY ONE OF HIS MOVIES STARS MIFUNE

THE MOST BASED NIP EVER

it's comfy. also it's one of his earlier works. probably the first one to get him noticed. it probably had a relatively smaller budget too.

This is as far as I'm concerned the greatest scene in cinematic history, or at least my personal number one.

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Kurosawa is a great director because he doesn't try to do le weird artsy pretentious wankfest, just normal entertainment movies that are just very, very well crafted.
Sadly, craftsmanship in movies is on the way out, we only have corporate whores doing "painting by the numbers" and pretentious asses who think that doing something weird and unconventional automatically means it's good (and critics that eat that shit up).

I saw my first Kurosawa film in years the other night
High & Low
I watched it because it was one of Joachim Trier's criterion collection picks. I've seen most of Kurosawa's big films ages ago. Ran, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Ikiru etc.

High & Low is a detective crime story and I was kind of blown away by it.
It was just so damn entertaining and watchable. The story built and built in such a sincere well executed way. The whole thing was so well done. It had artistic merit, but zero pretension, and the story elements were absolutely the focus.

He's like Hitchcock. Those films are just so goddamn watchable and entertaining. It's not like you have to be in the mood for them, or only some people would enjoy them, or you have to understand ideas, or connect with a mood, or anything. It's just expertly crafted entertainment.

High & Low made me think just how utterly lacking in fundamental ways, most crime stories these days are. And seeing such an uber conventional story, with no real conflicted characters in the police, no anti-heros, just a good old fasioned story, felt so goddamn original.

Kurosawa was a master, and bullshit film conventions, originally which had impact as original, are now such embedded cliches, that classical throwback films feel genuinely original again in a modern context.

I saw floating weeds the other day too, and Ozu was also an absolute kinographer. But it's different. His films are arthouse films. They aren't the same kind of broad appeal. That's not a good or bad thing.

I didn't see your post before I went on my rant, but ma nigga, i think we're basically saying the same thing. Although I don't really consider people like Koreeda or Ozu for example, as being engaged in pretentious wankfests. And there are even some pretentious wankfests that I do like.

I do still fucking love a good ol normal movie executed with extreme skill like a Kurosawa film.

>is so based that he breaks the nip matrix coding
>grows a full, luscious beard
>is handsome, eyes not slits
>overcomes being 5'9 entirely with his inner chad charisma
>BTFOs soi so hard that he is the only man to ever make a "man"bun work
>imitation of him launched based Clint's career into the stratosphere
Yeah, I'm thinking he's based.

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>spent most of Seven Samurai walking around in a g-string with his ass fully exposed and still came across as a cool guy

he's a real badass in high & low
it's weird seeing him as a businessman in a contemporary setting though lol

I don't remember it that way.

You stole this joke from The Simpsons

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META AF

absolute truth

King of the Hill Rashomon is kino

youtube.com/watch?v=xdyGfiIirD8

it's ok, just overrated. Definitely far from his best work.

okay, I kek'd
good one

That's the Samurai Trilogy by Hiroshi Inagaki not Kurosawa

it's pretty kino

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I haven't seen anything as good as this scene in cinema in a while

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Samurai trilogy is extremely kino, but not quite up there with Kurosawa. But otoh it's in color which is breddy gud.

I've seen 7 Samurai, Rashomon, Yojimbo, and Ran and I've liked everything I've seen so far

>tfw saw a cinema screening of Hidden Fortress two weeks ago
I jizzed in my pants.

Watch Hidden Fortress.
And if you want some non-samurai Kurosawa, watch Stray Dog and High and Low.

watch one of his modern-day kinos
Ikiru is my favourite.... literally the definition of SOUL transferred to the screen

I'll check them out

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Sneed?

easily top 5

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how can one so checked be so wrong?

Kagemusha is my favorite

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What are you talking about? Critics don't really like Refn that much, see the RT scores for his last two movies. It's the public who overrates him. Same goes for Lars von Trier, to he honest. See his scores on RT, Melancholia is the only one that is completely acclaimed by the critics.

CHINK FLICKS TRY TO REPLICATE THIS

BUT CHINA IS FUCKING GARBAGE

GLORIOUS NIPPON WILL REMILITARIZE AND MAKE RAPE OF NANKING 1.0 LOOK LIKE A FUCKING JOKE

;_;

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Hong Kong movies are good.

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>he was also able to perfect blood spray kino as early as Yojimbo.

And yes, I would argue Akira is top 3 actually. He had a visual prowess and story understanding at his time that was unmatched, and a career full of kinography that had multiple climaxes.

absolutely agree, the epitome of a master in love with his craft

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his best movie in my humble opinion

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>not calling it laughing_australian.gif

HOWS THE SMOG IN BEIJING THIS MORNING JACKY

WHORE OF THE MAINLAND!

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what's that "five pence" thing referring to?

Seven Samurai is proto capeshit. I'm glad Yea Forums agrees with that idea.

thats true, wong kar wai has made some incredible movies

I wish cinema was still about craftsmanship instead of weird or morbid shit to seem artsy.
I studied film and people gave me crap for saying film was a craft and not an art. It's not that I think film can't be art, I just think film is a craft that can yeild a work of art, just like any craft that's masterfully done.

The backlash against Kurosawa has its roots in him being far more popular far earlier than his peers. Ozu, Kobayashi, Suzuki only got recognition in western critical circles almost a full generation after Kurosawa. Ironically around the time Kurosawa was trying to kill himself.
People warp that in their minds, even 50 years later to something like 'look at that overrated hack' when really it was the other's that were underrated and only for a latent period.

SEVEN SAMURAI IS A MELODRAMATIC ORDEAL, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN PROVES THE WEST IS THE MASTER RACE

NOTHING MORE WEST THAN THE WILD WEST USA USA USA

/pol/acks are mentally ill

The idea that art isn't inherently tied to craftsmanship is bogus

Man people always make this joke or even seriously commentate on Rashomon being solely about perception, but actual lying is a big part of the film too. Not just people remembering things differently, people trying to sway someone else or even their own opinion.
It's not just, hurr shitty memory durr.

He's very good, but Japanese exoticism made him overrated desu. People pretend Japanese films are so beyond anything else, just because they can't understand the language and it is so inherently foreign to Anglo sensibilities and aesthetics. It's the exact same shit with the French and Russian movies. This, of course, bleeds into all media, not just cinema.

For me though, Masaki Kobayashi is the GOAT Japanese director

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>weeb forum
>being impressed by japanese exoticism

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50-cent army. Shills online who get paid 50 cents for every positive thing they say online about china.

the sensibilities of all great artists are exotic desu

oic, thx

bump for comfy bread

Yes, this.

thanks frens, now I don't feel like such an outcast

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>its a Mifune, Shimura episode

Pure kino

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Sanjuro is excellent, I'd put it ahead of Rashamon and Hidden Fortress desu