Kurosawasan

Yeah I don't know Japanese, but I feel if I were to talk to Akira Kurosawa right now I'd probably call him that. Akira was a masterful film maker, able to control seemingly every aspect of his craft. I really enjoyed that we got to watch a movie from a plethora of periods of his career. His later films, Yojimbo and Ran really captured my attention, whereas Stray Dog, made me want to quit school and get a GED. I think I enjoyed them because they combined both comedy and action into a sweet samurai flick. One of Kurosawa's more admirable traits is how he was able to tie in the weather in his movies. He didn't shoot them on a back lot of a studio, so he used the weather to his advantage to really put more emotion in the film.