Movies, Mom & Me

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    One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Tajômaru	Machiko Kyô	Masako Kanazawa	Masayuki Mori	Takehiro Kanazawa	Takashi Shimura	Woodcutter
  Minoru Chiaki	Priest	Kichijirô Ueda	Commoner	Noriko Honma	Medium	Daisuke Katô	Policeman

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1950
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Labels: akira-kurosawa, courtroom, Criterion5, legal, mystery3, toshirô-mifune

# posted by gail @ 08:35    0 comments    email......this post

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    This movie is a Japanification of Macbeth. It takes place in feudal Japan instead of Medieval Scotland. I considered including the Macbeth counterpart for each of the actors in the Table of Actors and Roles below, but after watching the movie, I realized it isn't necessary. Believe me, you'll get the gist of who's who, who's doing what to whom and why, when you watch it, even if you've never viewed any of the Western versions (and, they are legion) of this movie.
    Glenn Erickson, the author of the review attached to the title of this post, reviewed this film twice. The review attached to the title is the more inclusive review.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Taketoki Washizu	Isuzu Yamada	Lady Asaji Washizu	Takashi Shimura	Noriyasu Odagura	Akira Kubo	Yoshiteru Miki
  Yōichi Tachikawa	Kunimaru Tsuzuki	Minoru Chiaki	Yoshiaki Miki	Takamaru Sasaki	Lord Kuniharu Tsuzuki	Chieko Naniwa	Forest Spirit

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1957
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: akira-kurosawa, Criterion5, shakespeare, toshirô-mifune

# posted by gail @ 20:15    0 comments    email......this post

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    In 1998 Roger Ebert wrote an interesting and thoughtful retrospective of Akira Kurosawa's work. If you're a fan, it's a great place for suggestions of other Akira Kurosawa movies to watch and contemplate.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Kingo Gondo	Tatsuya Nakadai	Insp Tokura	Kyōko Kagawa	Reiko Gondo	Tatsuya Mihashi	Kawanishi
  Kenjiro Ishiyama	Chief Det Taguchi	Isao Kimura	Det Arai	Takeshi Katō	Det Nakao	Yutaka Sada	Chauffeur Aoki
  Tsutomu Yamazaki	Ginjirô Takeuchi	Takashi Shimura	Chief of Investigations	Susumu Fujita	Mgr of Investigations	Yoshio Tsuchiya	Det Murata
  Jun Tazaki	National Shoes Publicity Dir Kamiya	Nobuo Nakamura	National Shoes Design Dep Dir Ishimaru	Yunosuke Ito	National Shoes Exec	Kamatari Fujiwara	Incineration Worker

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1963
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: akira-kurosawa, Criterion5, neo-noirA, police-procedural, tatsuya-nakadai, toshirô-mifune

# posted by gail @ 19:16    0 comments    email......this post

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    Roger Ebert cristened this movie as one of his Great Movies.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Takashi Shimura	Kanji Watanabe	Shinichi Himori	Kimura	Haruo Tanaka	Sakai	Minoru Chiaki	Noguchi

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1952
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: aging, akira-kurosawa, Criterion4

# posted by gail @ 06:42    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Sanjuro Tsubaki	Tatsuya Nakadai	Hanbei Muroto	Yūzō Kayama	Iori Izaka	Reiko Dan	Chidori
  Takashi Shimura	Kurofuji	Kamatari Fujiwara	Takebayashi	Takako Irie	Mutsuta's wife	Sachio Sakai	Ashigaru

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1962
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: §5, akira-kurosawa, Criterion4, samurai, tatsuya-nakadai, toshirô-mifune

# posted by gail @ 06:15    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Kuwabatake Sanjuro	Eijirō Tōno	Gonji	Tatsuya Nakadai	Unosuke	Kyū Sazanka	Ushitora

  
    One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies.
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1961
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: §5, akira-kurosawa, Criterion5, samurai, tatsuya-nakadai, toshirô-mifune

# posted by gail @ 05:32    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Takashi Shimura	Kambei Shimada	Toshirô Mifune	Kikuchiyo	Daisuke Katō	Shichirōji	Isao Kimura	Katsushirō Okamoto
  Minoru Chiaki	Heihachi Hayashida	Seiji Miyaguchi	Kyūzō	Yoshio Inaba	Gorōbei Katayama	Yoshio Tsuchiya	Rikichi
  Bokuzen Hidari	Yohei	Yukiko Shimazaki	Rikichi's wife	Kamatari Fujiwara	Manzō	Keiko Tsushima	Shino
  Kokuten Kōdō	Gisaku	Yoshio Kosugi	Mosuke	Shinpei Takagi	bandit chief	Shin Otomo	bandit second-in-command

  
    One of Roger Ebert's Great Movies.
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1954
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: akira-kurosawa, Criterion5, dramaF, samurai, toshirô-mifune

# posted by gail @ 03:42    0 comments    email......this post

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  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Toshirô Mifune	Kōichi Nishi	Masayuki Mori	V.P. Iwabuchi	Kyōko Kagawa	Yoshiko Nishi	Tatsuya Mihashi	Tatsuo Iwabuchi
  Takashi Shimura	Admin. Ofc. Moriyama	Kō Nishimura	Contract Ofc. Shirai	Takeshi Katō	Itakura	Kamatari Fujiwara	Asst. Chief Wada
  Chishū Ryū	Public Prosecutor Nonaka	Seiji Miyaguchi	Prosecutor Okakura	Kōji Mitsui	Reporter	Susumu Fujita	Detective

  
    Here is the Wikipedia write-up for this movie.
    Release Date: 1960
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: §2, akira-kurosawa, chishū-ryū, Criterion2, detective1, mystery2, neo-noirA, toshirô-mifune

# posted by gail @ 20:10    0 comments    email......this post

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  Commentary:  This film is a series of biographical vignettes from an extremely personal perspective. That may sound like it's difficult to watch, but, in fact, it is, like it's title, dreamy and extraordinarily engaging. As you watch, you can either consider it a Kurosawa statement, or you can meander through the vignettes as individual statements being made by the characters.
    The fact that this collection of films is "hosted, of sorts, I sometimes find annoying, but then another vignette begins and I lose myself. Again.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Actor Name	Role Name	Actor Name	Role Name	Actor Name	Role Name	Actor Name	Role Name
  Akira Terao I, Dreamer	I, Dreamer	Mitsunori Isaki	I, Young Dreamer	Mitsuko Baisho	Dreamer's Mother	Martin Scorsese	Vincent Van Gogh
  Chishū Ryū	Old Man	Mieko Harada	Snow Spirit	Yoshitaka Zushi	Private Noguchi	Toshie Negishi	Woman with Child
  Hisashi Igawa	Nuclear Power Plant Man	Chosuke Ikariya	The Demon	Akira Kurosawa	Self	Matt Sloan	Host

  
    Here is a link to the Wikipedia write-up on this film.
    Release Date: 1990
    Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Labels: §1, akira-kurosawa, chishū-ryū, Criterion2, fantasy4, magical-realism

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