To The Distant Observer: Form and meaning in the Japanese cinema, Noël Burch Burch aims to do something akin to Bordwell/Thompson/Staiger in The Classical Hollywood Cinema, namely, a…
Donald Richie described Branded to Kill as something like an “anarchist” effort of yakuza cinema for its own sake. This may be fair. Seijun Suzuki is the avant-garde-ist to Hiroshi…
Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince calls Scandal a “necessary mediocrity,” an appropriate label for the film following Stray Dog and preceding Rashomon. Prince also points out that the “amazingly pedestrian” imagery…
Once again…after this and this. Homage: n., (1) a sign of respect displayed publicly; (2) tribute; (3) a thirst for cash coupled with a lack of creativity leading to artistic…
Drunken Angel holds a unique position in Akira Kurosawa’s oeuvre, being a sort of bridge between his lesser-known early films and his much more famous mid-career films. The former category,…
