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黒澤明Composer:
池辺晋一郎Cast:
Akira Terao, 原田美枝子, Yoshitaka Zushi, Hisashi Igawa, Chishû Ryû, Martin Scorsese, Tetsu Watanabe, 倍賞美津子, Chosuke Ikariya, 天田益男, 小野真弓, 中嶋しゅう, Noriko Honma, Shigeo KatôVOD (2)
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One of the most visionary, deeply personal works in the 60-year career of the master behind Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Ran. Featuring eight episodes rich in imagery and insight (and casting MARTIN SCORSESE as a feisty Vincent Van Gogh), it explores the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power and especially humankind's need to harmonize with nature. (official distributor synopsis)
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One of the main problems is that the dreams are unbalanced. If only just the dreams... Only Crows meets the parameters of a classic dream, otherwise the rest is a hodge-podge of dreams as in wishes (presented here in the form of naive humanist theses similar to the typical Miss line “I want world peace") and, with some poetic license, something that could be considered to be new-age (of course humanist) kaidans. Only three of the eight stories could be considered really outstanding: The Blizzard (the atmosphere!), Crows (nicely playful in a dreamy way) and Mount Fuji in Red (the only one where Kurosawa managed to put across his message in a hard-hitting and not just didactic manner).
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Even though there are images here that are truly beautiful, images that show that Akira Kurosawa delved even deeper into lyricism towards the end of his career, it's rather his more narrative-driven films that appeal to me and that I truly enjoy. From this, I had the feeling that it was more of a very well-executed artistic exercise.
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