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En el Punto de Mira: crítica a una redundancia innecesaria.

omarfariasdirector wrote 4 days ago: Al igual que “Rashomon”, la influyente película del maestro Akira Kurosawa, “En el punto de mira” n … more →

Tags: Omar Farias, Cine, En el punto de mira

[Review] Black Kiss: Kiriyama and the weird plottwist

Sam wrote 5 days ago: Another night, another movie. This time Black Kiss. A 2006 Japanese movie with only one actor soundi … more →

Tags: Actors / Actresses, insomnia, Japan, Movies, Review, Ando Masanobu, Asuka, battle royale, Black Kiss

Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa)

unpluggedcrazy wrote 1 week ago: Stray Dog is pleasurable in the same way that David Fincher’s Zodiac is pleasurable; it takes … more →

Tags: Drama, Movies, Movie Review, Crime, Thriller, Toshirô Mifune, Stray Dog, david fincher, Zodiac

Are You Willing to See?9 comments

rosannebane wrote 1 week ago: By Rosanne Bane The renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said “To be an artist means never … more →

Tags: overcoming resistance, Recommended Practices (Proces Self-Care and Product Tim, Writing Life, never avert your eyes, Process, Product Time, Résistance, Suicide, trying not to see

Summer Movie List - July 20094 comments

Arunn wrote 1 week ago: Flaunting book-lists in our blogs doesn’t qualify us as scholars. Presenting a movie list does … more →

Tags: Asides, Movies, adventure movies, Alfred Hitchcock, Blake Edwards, Cinema, Classics, Comedy - Movies, Drama

A Sentence on Dave

ZC wrote 1 week ago: A paragon of the formulaic comedy film and hilarious “remake” of Kurosawa’s Kagem … more →

Tags: 1990s Cinema, American Film, One-Sentence Reviews, Cinema, Comedy, Dave, film, Ivan Reitman, Kagemusha

A Fistful of Dollars

ZC wrote 2 weeks ago: For being based on (and according to Akira Kurosawa, the same movie as) Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dolla … more →

Tags: 1960s Cinema, American Film, japanese film, a fistful of dollars, Cinema, Clint Eastwood, film, Movies, Sergio Leone

Recommendations in Asian cinema

phillipkay wrote 2 weeks ago: This is a survey of Asian cinema I have enjoyed. The emphasis is on drama, not on martial arts or sp … more →

Tags: Lists, ang lee, Audrey Lam, barbara wong, Hark Tsui, Hong Sang-soo, Jang Sun-Woo, Joan Chen, Mabel Cheung

Weekend Links - Health Care, Jimmy Carter, and Bad Idea Jeans1 comment

Jonah wrote 3 weeks ago: With a big assist to the crew on my Google Reader rolls and the Twitter army (as well as some of my … more →

Tags: Links, Barack Obama, Chris Liss, Food, Health Care, Homer was right - Jimmy Carter IS smarter, Israel, Joe Buck, Ken Griffey Jr.

Sanjuro

Jordan Richardson wrote 3 weeks ago: Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 film Sanjuro is a tremendously enjoyable action-comedy led by a terrific perf … more →

Tags: 1962, Action, adventure, Comedy, Entertainment, Foreign, Historical, Movies, Trailers

My Shitty Akira Kurosawa Essay

Espinoza wrote 3 weeks ago: The follow is an essay I wrote for a film class.  How I scored 98/100 is beyond me.  This is pretty … more →

Tags: film, Essay

Review: Yojimbo (The Bodyguard, 1961)1 comment

Bill Thompson wrote 3 weeks ago: See where Sergio Leone drew inspiration for his Man With No Name trilogy! Screenplay By: Ryuzo Kiku … more →

Tags: 1960s, Movies, The Bodyguard, yojimbo, Alcohol, Asia, Character Study, Comedy, corruption

Book Nook: Something Like An Autobiography2 comments

Just Another Film Buff wrote 4 weeks ago: Something Like An Autobiography Akira Kurosawa (Translated by Audie E. Bock) Random House, 1983 … more →

Tags: All posts, Books, Review, Akahige, Akira Kurosawa Book Review, Audie Bock, Autobiographies of Directors, Dreams, Film books

YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)

grunes wrote 4 weeks ago: Intricate, razor-sharp black-and-white cinematography by Kenji Mizoguchi’s Kazuo Miyagawa gives Akir … more →

Tags: Formal Capsule Film Comments

The Masterpiece - favorite martial art films pt.5

Patrick wrote 1 month ago: Part of a whole group of posts that occupy my time while I get back into jiu-jitsu shape. They have … more →

Tags: Bit Off Topic, Video, martial art films, Samurai, Seven Samurai

A Fistful of Dollars

mistercomfypants wrote 1 month ago: Title: Per un pugno di dollari Year: 1964 Director: Sergio Leone Writers: Víctor Andrés Catena, Jai … more →

Tags: Movies, Clint Eastwood, ennio morricone, Ryuzo Kikushima, 1964, Sergio Leone, victor andres catena, jaime comas gil, a. bonzzoni

10 Film Books2 comments

Brad Wrolstad wrote 1 month ago: Following a theme that originated at The Dancing Image, here are 10 books on film that continue to … more →

Tags: Movies, Ingmar Bergman, Toshirô Mifune, James Cagney, Peter Bogdanovich, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles, Leslie Halliwell, Federico Fellini

Chapter Three

Nic wrote 1 month ago: Last night we slept in terrible fits. I awoke to find that I was alone in the bed, a frightening pro … more →

Tags: Night, Mosquito, sleep, Alone, fight, baby be bop, book burning, Francesca Lia Block, polaroid

The Bodyguard

mistercomfypants wrote 1 month ago: Title: Yojimbo Year: 1961 Director: Akira Kurosawa Writers: Akira Kurosawa & Ryuzo Kikushima St … more →

Tags: Movies, top 250, 1961, Ryuzo Kikushima, Toshirô Mifune, Masaru Satô


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