Akira Kurosawa was born on March 23, 1910 to the descendents of a samurai family, with seven brothers and sisters. His childhood was marred repeatedly by death and destruction, all three of his brothers dying premature deaths, as well as one of his sisters. He lived through the 1923 Tokyo earthquake, in which 100,000 people ...
Kurosawa’s (1950) Rashomon is a movie which shows how any individual’s perception and telling of an event can differ from another’s version. It also shows what lengths people will go to protect their own self image – from lies and deceit to murder. By the end of the movie, it is still unclear which of ...
Akira Kurosawa’s classic Rashamon is loosely based on two short stories by Ryuonsuke Akutagawa. The main story of the film is based on In the Grove while the film’s opening and closing scenes is from the short story, Rashomon. Like other novels or books that became films, there are naturally differences in the film and ...
Turner Classic Movies recently presented the classic film Rashomon, a Japanese psychological drama directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film is done in the Japanese language and has English subtitles. The word Rashomon means In the Woods which is the setting for this dynamic presentation. A college professor of mine once used the generic Rashomon to ...
There are not a whole lot of people that enjoy foreign movies. Watching dubbed movies or reading subtitled movies can sometimes seem like a task. The good news is that if you find it difficult watching foreign movies then you don’t have to waste one of your Netflix rentals. There are plenty of great foreign ...
It’s a tough job trying to come up with the top ten X-Files episodes of all time. Frankly, I think I should have done the top twenty instead, but that would take too much writing. I’m sure some of these episodes will draw the ire of manic X-Files fans as they search for their favorites. ...
South Park’s latest episode, Fish Sticks, was a bizarre riff on late night comedy, the nature of humor, Carlos Mencia, and Kayne West. It seems to have its origins in Akira Kurosawa, American gangster films, with a dash of theater of the absurd. Some spoilers are certainly revealed below. The action starts when Cartman, having ...
We are rarely ever presented with situations that offer us a clear-cut or simple solution. Rather, in order to determine the truth behind any event, we must seek out all of the information and different versions of a story, which exist, putting together the “truth” based on our own opinions and the various versions, which ...
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