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Rashomon
Film Description A woodcutter witnesses an ambush, rape and murder in a forest. In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants gives a different view of what happened - is anyone telling the truth? This film was arguably the first to alert Western audiences to the riches of Japanese cinema after winning won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. Kurosawa said of the film that it deals with people's 'inability to be honest with themselves about themselves'.
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Article - "Kenji Mizoguchi"
by John Davies
Kenji Mizoguchi was born in 1898, the middle child of a Tokyo family. The abrupt ending of the 1904-5 Russo-Japanese war, dashing his father's attempts to sell raincoats to the army, precipitated a desperate financial crisis which forced Mizoguchi's older sister Suzu... View article in full
Article - "Akira Kurosawa"
by Peter Wild
Akira Kurosawa is generally regarded to be one of the greatest directors to have ever worked in the medium. Lauded later in life by Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola (who said that, “of all film directors, Kurosawa is the only one whose films y... View article in full
Article - "Akira Kurosawa - A Restrained Affirmation"
by Peter Wild
I have Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro to thank for my infatuation with Akira Kurosawa (or Kurosawa Akira as he is referred to in Japan). I interviewed Kazuo about ten years ago and he said that there was a film by Kurosawa that ranked as one of the grea... View article in full
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