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totalfilm.com –
2008-07-18
Takashi Shimura is best remembered for assembling the Seven Samurai (the Yul Brynner role). In fact he made more films with Akira Kurosawa than Toshiro Mifune, and Ikiru is his greatest performance. ... Full Article
Drunken Angel
slantmagazine.com –
2007-11-27
kira Kurosawa often referred to Drunken Angel as the movie in which the Japanese director finally found his style, though this minor yet fascinating 1948 work might be more accurately described as the movie in which he found his actor,... ... Full Article
Drunken Angel: Criterion Collection Director: Akira Kurosawa Cast: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita (1959) Rated: PG-13 US DVD release date: 27 November 2007 (Criterion)
popmatters.com –
2007-11-27
Throughout the film, Kurosawa, photographer Takeo Ito, and art director Takashi Matsuyama play with light and shadow. Characters continually move into one and out of the other, and, as in Sanadas and Matsunagas first scene together, are sometimes bisected by... ... Full Article
Rashomon
efilmcritic.com –
2007-10-02
What was affecting me? The suspense? No, I'd seen the film before and knew how it ended. The excitement of the fighting? No, it's ineptly choreographed. ... Full Article
When the old-timers talk of monster movies -- not horror films or slasher flicks, but true, creature-feature monster movies -- the discussion doesn't progress very far before the king of all the monsters comes up: Godzilla. ... Full Article
The Bad Sleep Well
slantmagazine.com –
2006-01-09
f 1952's Ikiru projects a propitious belief in the individual's ability to affect societal changeand to achieve a measure of emotional and spiritual regeneration in the processthen 1960's The Bad Sleep Well slices such fanciful notions to ribbons with a... ... Full Article
Stray Dog - DVD
cinemablend.com –
2004-05-24
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku Directed by Akira Kurosawa Produced by Sojiro Motoki Written by Akira Kurosawa Article by Bryce Wilson : 2004-05-30 00:00:00 Share this article with your friends! Your name: Enter email ... Full Article
Ikiru
christianitytoday.com –
2004-03-16
Ron Reed | posted 03/16/04 Akira Kurosawa's epic Samurai films are among the greatest movies ever made. But it is a quiet, intimate story about a very different sort of hero-a mid-level bureaucrat confronted with the futility of his own... ... Full Article
Viewers familiar with Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies will be shocked to see Ikiru , the Japanese master's meditation on post-WWII society in urban Tokyo. Takashi Shimura plays Kanji Watanabe, an office worker who lives his life without incident until he... ... Full Article
What if You Had Just Six Months to Live? A Review by John Nesbit 01/18/2004 Life is so short Fall in love, dear maiden While your lips are still red And before you are cold, For there will be no... ... Full Article