I personally thought he was my favorite director that I have seen so far in Art of Film II. His use of dark humor in his supposedly serious movies is just great. For example, the scene where the right hand man of Jiro plays dumb and brings back the head of a stone fox. Though sometimes he does take some shots too far and leave it on the character for too long in my opinion, but it is something new I hadn't seen before. The types of heroes is a bit different from the type I'm used to from American films, his heroes aren't invincible, they actually can get hurt pretty badly (Sanjuro for example in Yojimbo). His use of weather, strong winds, rain, nature is never weak in his films.
My favorite movie out of the three we watched would probably have to be Yojimbo, just because of the loads of dark humor in that film. Kurosawa never made a comedy but Yojimbo was pretty close. It was interesting to see an action film incorporate so many jokes and laughs, I had never seen that before in any American films. Sanjuro as a character seems to be very likable as well, he has the skill of any great samurai, but he still acts and looks like a commoner, and pretty carefree as well. I think foreign films bring a lot of new ideas to movie making that Americans just don't seem to be able to create once they are stuck in their film making norms. They can sometimes bring a new experience to viewers.
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I had forgotten about the scene in Ran with the fox's head. I love how humor manages to creep its way even into a scene that is pretty serious within the story.
Ya Kurosawa was a very good director and it was nice to see some different kind of movies.
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ahh anyways yeah I agree, AK has been the better of the director's that we have seen so far, movies aren't out of my realm and they bring an interesting sense of foreign aspect to the film world.
I agree that Kurosawa is the best director that we have studied in class, and how the movies are very interesting, since they are foreign films that some people in the states are not able to see.
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