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 ...
Movie buffs often place High Noon and Shane on the top of their list of favorite Western movies. Westerns were popular in the silent film era as well as in the ’30s and ’40s but the American Western reached a new level of maturity in the ’50s in the hand of intelligent directors like Fred ...
There’s so much to be said for the work of Akira Kurosawa and yet rarely is there a forum given for his work to be compared to the greats of cinema history. Fortunately IMDB’s users have appropriately rated his most watched and most important film, Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai) as the number nine film ...
Ah, action films. Is there not any greater form of cinematic masterpiece? Well, yeah, there is. All I know is that if I’m looking to watch a movie at the video store, this is the types of films that I want to see. Entertainment Weekly recently rattled off their choice of Top 25 films of ...
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 ...
The Meiji restoration had a deep impact on Japan. The restoration, besides restoring power to the Meiji emperor (which, in reality, it just transferred power from the Tokugawa shogun to the new oligarchy of the daimyo that defeated him) changed Japanese society. “The salient characteristic of Japan’s mid-nineteenth century transitional period is the demise of ...
No, this is not a list of the 100 greatest Martial Arts movies. Let others debate which movies had the best fights, plots or production values. These are the 100 most talked about martial arts films ever. Some because they were ground breakers, some because of incredible fight scenes and some because they were so ...
What to do with the Doctor Who TV series on hiatus until fall 2012? Catch up on my Doctor Who audiobooks, that’s what. I’ve got a lot to get through and I thought since the series is on the 11th Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith, I’d get through the latest ones first. It seems that ...