By: bbbgtoby
Great review. Kurosawa really brings something new to the genre in terms of style. We watched this quite recently as part of our noir-a-thon and have a couple more Kurosawa flicks coming up which we’re...
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High and Low and The Bad Sleep Well, we also rewatched Stray Dog recently. Discovering these films was a real eye opener, I’d always sort of assumed when people talked about Kurosawa that they were...
View ArticleBy: Adam Lounsbery
Well, I think his samurai movies are great, so I understand why they sometimes overshadow his other films. But I definitely don’t think they’re better, just different. High and Low is one of my...
View ArticleBy: The Quiet Duel (March 13, 1949) | OCD Viewer
[…] fan. It also functions as a thematic bridge between two of Kurosawa’s major early works, Drunken Angel (1948) and Stray Dog […]
View ArticleBy: Late Spring (Sept. 13, 1949) | OCD Viewer
[…] the filthy cesspool Kurosawa depicted in his postwar film Drunken Angel (1948), Ozu’s critique of the American occupation of Japan in Late Spring is much more […]
View ArticleBy: Stray Dog (Oct. 17, 1949) | OCD Viewer
[…] film he wanted, but he succeeded in making a great film nevertheless. For my money, Stray Dog and Drunken Angel (1948) are Kurosawa’s two earliest […]
View ArticleBy: Scandal (April 30, 1950) | OCD Viewer
[…] a way, Scandal marks the end of Kurosawa’s early period. I don’t rate it as highly as Drunken Angel (1948) or Stray Dog (1949), but it’s still an excellent […]
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