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20 Movies: Kagemusha (1980)
This is a review I wrote a few years ago when I first picked up the DVD of Kagemusha and saw it for the second time, some twenty years after first seeing it. I think I might write something quite … Read more
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Kagemusha (1980)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa I probably saw the movie Kagemusha first back in 1980 or 1981, when it was first released in North America with 20 minutes removed from the film Akira Kurosawa made. At the time, it knocked me … Read more
20 Movies: Ikiru (1952)
I know people who can’t watch a movie like Ikiru because it’s in black and white and because it is “foreign.” I confess I have to bite my tongue when I hear such things because, while on one hand I … Read more
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20 Movies: Hero (Ying xiong) (2002)
It seems appropriate that a movie that is mythic and fantastic should also be fantastic, not in the fantasy sense but in the Wow! sense. To a degree, the story is irrelevant here because the movie is so visually stunning, … Read more
Hero (Ying xiong) (2002)
Directed by Yimou Zhang With a movie as good as Hero, where do you begin? There are so many elements, so many perspectives, so many levels that warrant lengthy discussion it’s almost impossible to start. So I’ll begin by first … Read more
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