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Welcome. What you will find here will be my random thoughts and reactions to various books I have read, films I have watched, and music I have listened to. In addition I may (or may not as the spirit moves me) comment about the fantasy world we call reality, which is far stranger than fiction.

Showing posts with label KUROSAWA Akira. Show all posts

Showing posts with label KUROSAWA Akira. Show all posts

Monday, December 14, 2009

IKIRU: a film by Kurosawa (1952)

Ikiru (to live) may not be the first foreign film I ever saw, but it's certainly the first one I remember seeing. I watched it over 4...

Friday, March 20, 2009

Kurosawa's _Rashomon_ and Martin Ritt's _The Outrage_

Warning: I have included considerable information about both films, including the endings. As anyone who has visited Fred's Place mig...

Friday, January 9, 2009

Akira Kurosawa: East and West

It was Kipling who wrote: O H, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. I don't know what Kipling would think to...

Friday, October 24, 2008

Akutagawa's short story: In a Grove

One of Kurosawa's best known films is Rashomon , the story of a rape and death from three different points of view: the husband, the wif...

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