A comprehensive and meticulous look into all 30 Kurosawa Kurosawa films. One by one. Excellent essays but better to read them in small doses. Before reading this book I had watched 8 or 9 of his films some of the Samurai ones + Ikiru + Dreams. This book has opened my eyes to his artistic genius work. Not all his films are at the level of Seven Samurai or Ikiru but I want to watch the rest. Last weekend I saw Stray Dog, a film noir. It's slow but beautiful. I liked Mifune and Shimura a lot and the claustrophobic and steamy atmosphere. There is a scene I liked with Mifune by the phone, sweating, desperate...
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