![]() Nowadays, the film’s lack of objective truth-a rarity in Kurosawa’s cinema as far as his aspirations toward exploring the inherent falsity of subjectivity goes-makes The Most Beautiful an important time capsule piece, and little else. Still, Kurosawa relented once: The Most Beautiful, an unfortunately sappy melodrama about a group of girls who work for a factory that manufactures lenses for weapons, striving to do the best job possible in order to help the war effort. nature-which just looks like lazy soundstage work.Īs the rare individualist in Japanese cinema, Kurosawa wasn’t necessarily swept up in patriotic fervor during World War II, and mainly managed to stay away from helming propaganda films designed to reignite the Japanese passion for victory, especially during the final years of the war when morale was at an all time low. ![]() Check the finale, steeped in one Kurosawa’s favorite visual themes-man vs. That’s not the case with Sanshiro Sugata Part Two. Even with films in which we know (or can tell) the director wasn’t all that emotionally connected to the material, Kurosawa manages to wrangle together a sequence of two that stands out as unique, groundbreaking even. His disinterest is on full display: His direction is uncharacteristically dull and flat. Kurosawa didn’t want to direct this slapdash follow-up to his first feature, Sanshiro Sugata, which continues the adventures of the title character, a legendary Judo master (Susumu Fujita). Here is every Akira Kurosawa film, ranked: ![]() Three films are excluded from this list: The TV documentary Song of the Horse, mainly because of the genre and the medium, and two features, Uma and Those Who Make Tomorrow, where he stepped in to direct small sections of each film at the behest of the studio. Pick practically any Kurosawa film at random, and within you’ll see the blueprints of genres and styles that have become touchstones of world cinema, from Spaghetti western, to police procedural, to art house drama with a non-linear narrative-the list is tangled and endless.Īs hopefully a service to Kurosawa beginners who would love to know which films they should check out first, then move their way down in order to become completionists, I’ve decided to rank all 30 feature films the Emperor has helmed. Akira Kurosawa is frequently referred to as “Emperor”-hyperbolic, sure, but when it comes to the director’s staggeringly influential, detailed and versatile body of work, the truth catches up to the legend. ![]()
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