The final film from Kurosawa- 83 years old when he made the film– one of the cinema’s greatest artists
It is about a retired professor—he’s a simple man, a good man, sentimental (the cat stuff is a bit much)—like the old man in Dodes’ka-den he sort of welcomes burglars into his home- that sort of wisdom
Hilarious little vignette about a horse staring him down while he buys horse meat from the butcher
Lots of drinking and storytelling- a few acts turn into almost musical theater
the group of his former students in a line like the funeral in Ikiru
at 34 minutes the there’s a nice frame- he’s facing the camera, framed by the sliding wood doors and two students facing him. Another one of them looking at the moon framed by the door
the ending is superb as well- he has a memory/dream of himself as child and the camera floats into the watercolor clouds as he drifts away—really fitting
Why is Rhapsody In August(1991) not in the archives?
@Anderson- haven’t been able to find it- haven’t seen it
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