"[A] melancholy allegory....The movie's ritualistic atmosphere is established at the beginning..."New York Times "[T]his singular work finds the Japanese Renaissance man in a romantically melancholy mood." Entertainment Weekly "The movie's pace is appropriate to its mood, which is crisp, melancholy and gently cruel."Los Angeles Times "Kitano succeeds in drawing us into his world and slowing us down into the sadness of his characters."Chicago Sun-Times35.60878
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"[With] superb tension-racheting sequences..." Uncut "Kurosawa expertly balances cop-thriller elements with quieter, more personal moments." Sight and Sound "[A]n epic doozy....Witness its many intricately timed sequences..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly35.23478
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"[With] superb tension-racheting sequences..."Uncut "Kurosawa expertly balances cop-thriller elements with quieter, more personal moments."Sight and Sound "[A]n epic doozy....Witness its many intricately timed sequences..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly35.23478
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"Despite its epic scope in both content and form, the film's seemingly minor moments of humanity -- or its absence -- linger with a heartbreaking impact."Film Comment9.370842
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"The frenzied taboo-busting of Miike's other work is replaced by a much more contemplative tone that allows the protagonists' rites of passage to be charted with affecting delicacy." Sight and Sound6.781692
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"...Oshima has crafted an uncompromising portrait of obsessive sexual passion..." Total Film "REALM's escalating affair of sexual obsession takes place in 1936....[It] remains a genuine feat of hard-core eroticism."Film Comment "IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES still has plenty of shock value...but there's a complexity and progression to the sex scenes that say more about this relationship than dialogue ever could." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club6.693459
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"...Oshima has crafted an uncompromising portrait of obsessive sexual passion..." Total Film "REALM's escalating affair of sexual obsession takes place in 1936....[It] remains a genuine feat of hard-core eroticism."Film Comment "IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES still has plenty of shock value...but there's a complexity and progression to the sex scenes that say more about this relationship than dialogue ever could." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club6.693459
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"This quartet of action movies unfolds like an origami kaleidoscope." Entertainment Weekly "Genre-savant Kihachi Okamoto's KILL! reworks the source material for Kurosawa's SANJURO as spit-black satire, with genre-superstar Tatsuya Nakadai staining the screen..." Film Comment "The four films in the REBEL SAMURAI set reflect a growing dissatisfaction with established power structures and a greater emphasis on personal freedom." New York Times5.554932
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"...A sweeping epic of the times of clan wars in 16th century Japan....Tatsuya Nakadai is extraordinary..." Variety "...[Kurosawa's] most physically elaborate, most awesome film, full of magnificent views....Majestic..." New York Times "...[A] classic..." USA Today "[O]ften breathtaking..." Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "Primarily a chamber piece shot in muted tones, it switches to exaggerated colour for a couple of large-scale battles..."Total Film "[S]hot in spectacular fashion. The use of colour and landscape is hugely impressive..."Sight and Sound5.54578
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"The soundtrack is especially strong, mixing natural sounds, human noises and Takemitsu Toru's subtle, haunting score." Sight and Sound5.420942
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"...There's no lack of stunningly choreographed action scenes....[With a] final, breathtaking showdown..." Sight and Sound "...SANJURO exhibits all of Kurosawa's formal beauty while parodying the conventions of the Japanese action film..." Total Film "The climactic duel shows the great Japanese director at his controlled, no-frills best." Uncut5.420942
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"...Sweeping..." -- RecommendedPremiere "...Kurosawa directs RAN with the easy grace that comes of a lifetime's experience..." Sight and Sound "...Brisk and vital, elegiac and contemplative, intimate and epic, tragic yet shot through with humor. It combines the energy of youth with the perspective of maturity..." Los Angeles Times "...The film is visually magnificent. Kurosawa refined everything he learned about battle scenes in KAGEMUSHA and the earlier samurai epics..." Chicago Sun-Times "...A deft switch on Shakespeare's King Lear....[A] stirring epic about familial deceit..." USA Today "The film] still packs a punch 19 years after its original release." Uncut "Transposing King Lear to feudal Japan, Akira Kurosawa delivers this visual feast of Shakespeare, No theater, and action epics." Entertainment Weekly Ranked #9 in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten DVDs Of The Year -- "With his last great masterpiece, Akira Kurosawa accomplished the remarkable -- improving upon Shakespeare." Entertainment Weekly 5 stars out of 5 -- "Intimate and epic, beautiful and savage, RAN glides between astonishing action sequences and forceful drama..."Total Film5.409913
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"...There's no lack of stunningly choreographed action scenes....[With a] final, breathtaking showdown..." Sight and Sound "...SANJURO exhibits all of Kurosawa's formal beauty while parodying the conventions of the Japanese action film..." Total Film "The climactic duel shows the great Japanese director at his controlled, no-frills best." Uncut5.409913
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"...Sweeping..." -- RecommendedPremiere "...Kurosawa directs RAN with the easy grace that comes of a lifetime's experience..." Sight and Sound "...Brisk and vital, elegiac and contemplative, intimate and epic, tragic yet shot through with humor. It combines the energy of youth with the perspective of maturity..." Los Angeles Times "...The film is visually magnificent. Kurosawa refined everything he learned about battle scenes in KAGEMUSHA and the earlier samurai epics..." Chicago Sun-Times "...A deft switch on Shakespeare's King Lear....[A] stirring epic about familial deceit..." USA Today "The film] still packs a punch 19 years after its original release." Uncut "Transposing King Lear to feudal Japan, Akira Kurosawa delivers this visual feast of Shakespeare, No theater, and action epics." Entertainment Weekly Ranked #9 in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten DVDs Of The Year -- "With his last great masterpiece, Akira Kurosawa accomplished the remarkable -- improving upon Shakespeare." Entertainment Weekly 5 stars out of 5 -- "Intimate and epic, beautiful and savage, RAN glides between astonishing action sequences and forceful drama..."Total Film5.409913
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"...It's a wonderful film....The whole cast is superb....Naruse's greatest strength lay in his dark vision..." Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 4 -- "Shot strikingly without fuss in black-and-white TohoScope....A melancholy treat..."USA Today "[T]his might be described as a Japanese version of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. Takamine Hideko's stoic central performance is heartbreaking."Sight and Sound "[T]he depictions of human foibles and frailties are exquisitely nuanced..."Sight and Sound5.354767
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4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] manga-fied LORD OF THE FLIES with automatic weapons..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] manga-fied LORD OF THE FLIES with automatic weapons..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] manga-fied LORD OF THE FLIES with automatic weapons..."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] manga-fied LORD OF THE FLIES with automatic weapons..."Total Film5.354767
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"[T]he twisty narrative is often exciting....The story finds inventive ways to extend the conflict, and the denouement has surprises for fans of the strip, tweaking the manga ending." Sight and Sound5.354767
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4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] manga-fied LORD OF THE FLIES with automatic weapons..."Total Film5.354767
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4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] manga-fied LORD OF THE FLIES with automatic weapons..."Total Film5.354767
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"[A] consistently unpredictable film....One of the more hopeful films the director has made to date, not to mention an ambitious new departure in style." Film Comment "BRIGHT FUTURE casts its spell by drawing out the horror of everyday existence bit by bit, and then tossing in some otherworldly weirdness that makes the hair on the back of your neck try to run for cover."New York Times "[T]he most spellbinding aspect of BRIGHT FUTURE is that the surrealism sustains its own squiddish logic, concluding with one of the most breathtaking film finales of the year." Entertainment Weekly "Confounding the supernatural genre, Kurosawa is a thoughtful stylist looking at fate..."Chicago Sun-Times "There's a dreamy, Lynchian quality to this wayward urban tale of two disaffected friends..."Sight and Sound0.05514594
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"...Probably the most influential action movie made....[The film] cemented Akira Kurosawa's rep as one of cinema's all-time greats..."Total Film0.05514594
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"...Probably the most influential action movie made....[The film] cemented Akira Kurosawa's rep as one of cinema's all-time greats..."Total Film0.05514594
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