Akira Kurosawas Dreams

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Das Schloss im Spinnwebwald

Das blutige Drama vom Königsmord aus Ehrgeiz, ins mittelalterliche Japan transponiert. Aus Macbeth wird Taketoki, Samurai beim Königsgeschlecht der Kumonosu. Eines Tages kehrt er mit seinem Waffenkollegen Miki von einem siegreichen Feldzug zurück. In einem unwirtlichen Wald begegnen sie einer Hexe. Sie verkündet den Samurai ihre schreckliche Prophezeiung… ARTE

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To Make Great Films, You Must Read, Read, Read and Write, Write, Write, Say Akira Kurosawa and Werner Herzog

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How Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai Perfected the Cinematic Action Scene: A New Video Essay

Jonathan Lethem knows a thing or two about storytelling as well as about caped comic-book characters, and on a recent podcast appearance he accused films about the latter of an inability to do the former: “I think one of the least satisfying film genres I’ve ever encountered is the contemporary superhero movie, which just seems to me kind of dead on arrival. I can’t even get into the hair-splitting about, ‘Oh, but there are three or four good ones.’ I just don’t see any life there.” How can such big productions filled with so much action play out so lifelessly on the screen? Perhaps the work of Akira Kurosawa, known in his day as the “Emperor” of Japanese film, can show us the answer.- openculture

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