1. Kurosawa (2002) - Ruthless Reviews
Aug 10, 2024 · This documentary is, outside of the films themselves, the best way to spend a few hours with one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived.
Non-fucked up Japanese culture. This is the best way to spend a few hours with one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived.
2. The Lower Depths | Rotten Tomatoes
This is the purpose of the picture, to make one suffer and sympathize with them. Kurosawa's darkly imagistic technique achieves this depressing aim.
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man (Bokuzen Hidari) and an aging actor (Kamatari Fujiwara), get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi (Toshirô Mifune) breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi (Isuzu Yamada) to romance her younger sister, Okayo (Kyoko Kagawa), Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband (Ganjirô Nakamura).
3. [PDF] Kurosawa Akira's The Lower Depths: Beggar cinema at the disjuncture of ...
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4. Lower Depths, The (Donzoko)
There are a bunch of other characters as well, most important being the landlord and landlady who try to make their lives even more hellish, and a wandering ...
dir: Akira Kurosawa
5. Kurosawa, Akira - Senses of Cinema
Jul 19, 2002 · One Kurosawa film, The Lower Depths (1957) is by far the most consistently underrated. (Some of the more obtuse film reference guides have even ...
6. The Lower Depths: Beggar Cinema, or Resistance to National Narcissism
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Abstract. Kurosawa’s The Lower Depths (Donzoko, 1957) has been seen exclusively as a literal adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s drama with no content of its own a
7. The Lower Depths - David Vining, Author - WordPress.com
Mar 22, 2022 · Given sixty filming days, Kurosawa brought some of the best Japanese actors of the time together on a handful of sets to help give the play real ...
#18 in my ranking of Akira Kurosawa’s filmography. Adapted from the play of the same name by Russian author Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths is an effort on Kurosawa’s part to be experimen…
8. Stray Dog - criterionforum.org
Nov 7, 2024 · A masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set on the sweltering mean streets of occupied Tokyo. When rookie detective Murakami ...
I'm normally not a fan of Dostoyevskian moralisms, but this one's Dostoyevskian moral doubling, with the implied pit of nihilism suspended underneath all the very small (but important) choices made, is terribly effective. There is nothing essential to anyone's character to make them good or bad; they make a choice, but they could easily make another choice, and socio-political contexts and even straight up luck have an outsized influence on those choices. Kurosawa can rely on existentialism to paper over the cracks of that nihilism, not needing to wrench back hard in an artificial way as in Rashomon. But Mifune and the thief lying together exhausted, muddy, and indistinguishable while schoolkids wander past is a hell of an image.
