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Rashomon Filmmaker Uncut Movie Reaction! (Patreon)

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2022-08-29 19:47:47
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2023-01

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Yours truly, Johnny Dollar

The actor playing the woodsman is not the same one who plays King Lear in Ran, that is another actor who often appears in Kurosawa films in the 50's and 60's (if you want to see what he was doing at this time, I would recommend Yojimbo and The Sword of Doom). Also congratulations you have seen your first film staring Toshiro Mifune, the actor most associated with Kurosawa and his frequent collaborator until their late 60s break-up. Fun fact, Kurosawa originally wanted to end the film with the woodsman being outed as a thief, but was convinced to give it a less dark ending. BTW, Kurosawa also has a number of films set in contemporary Japan in this time period: Ikiru, The Bad Sleep Well (which No Country for Old Men homages) and High and Low are generally considered the best of those. A lot of film nerds when they list their top 5 Kurosawa movies list 8 or 10, he's just that kind of director.

Nightcrawler

Went into this one blind, so I was surprised how philosophic it was. The whole thing felt like one big thought experiment. I'll have to watch it again before it really sinks in just how brilliant that ending was, but man, I need to watch more of his work.

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar
>>90582732

I strongly recommend that. Rashamon benefits from multiple viewings especially if you revisit years later( it can work as a Rorschach test). All of his stuff before the 80's is on Criterion ( and maybe HBO Max for now). He revolutionized action films, invented the spaghetti western, and did a lot of really thoughtful films besides those. I find his cinematography to be mesmerizing in all of the dozen or so I have seen.

Damian Christopher

The woodcutter Kikori was portrayed by Takashi Shimura. I think you did recognized him but for the wrong movie. As noted above he wasn't in Ran but he was in Godzilla.