they are great, with the period jazz scores, swinging chicks and gangster underworld stuff.
Bad Sleep Well is a corporate critique but worthy
Stray Dog
High and Low
and the best: Drunken Angel (one of my fave films ever).
Big fan of Kurosawa's "noirs"
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Re: Big fan of Kurosawa's "noirs"
It's been a while...I'll netflix these dutifully.
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Re: Big fan of Kurosawa's "noirs"
if you do, i'd sort rank them this way:PSUFAN wrote:It's been a while...I'll netflix these dutifully.
1. Drunken Angel (i just really like this film): Mifune is so young and Takashi Shimura is great (as always).
2. I like High and Low a lot, but i know people who don't. Coppola did a lot of work restoring Kagamusha and one of the other Kurosawa color films--can't remember the name--in Japan and Sofia straight quotes visually one of the key backdrops in H&L in Lost in Translation. say what you want, but i thought it was pretty cool.
3. Bad Sleep Well and Stray Dog are about the same to me. SD has a great scene of Japanese baseball in the 60's--but, i might rank it slightly behind BSW.
i was lucky enough 5-6 years ago to see these and most of the Kurosawa biggies reprints on the big screen one summer at the Colorado U International Film Festival....and that was AWESOME. AWESOME.
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