Sanshiro Sugata was a stubborn young youth went to a city to apply as an apprentice at a jujitsu school. During his first night, he met Yano an action master of judo and a lover of spiritual art. The protagonist in this movie wanted so much to become one of Yano’s students. Besides the martial arts techniques. Sanshiro had to learn also “satori”, an acceptance of Natural Laws. In their ideology, if a person can balance strength and control, then judo can become as a training regimen for the city police. In the story, the lead character gained the respect of his mentor as well as the hand of his daughter’s teacher. However, the conflict began when another suitor of the woman that he loves attempted to kill him in a midnight duel on a windswept mountainside.
To describe this film, it was Kurosawa’s [...]

Another Kurosawa cinematic genius, “The Men Who Tread On The Tiger’s Tail was all about a fugitive lord and his loyal bodyguards who wore a disguise as monks to be able to avoid apprehension and with a dirty trick to outsmart the border guards.
My personal judgment about this movie was Akira Kurosawa did a very good job with such an amazing fairy tale based on Japanese fables. However, I cannot seem to get the gist of the story. In addition, the film had gone on a ‘roller coaster ride” for almost sixty minutes. The character’s performance even failed to convince me that this was a real cinematic masterpiece. This I can prove from the very sloppy comic relief in the film. On the contrary, the choice of the scenic locations I can perfectly say, that this was Kurosawa made.
I had watched several [...]

In the final days of World War II, Akira Kurosawa wrestled with the demons and the atomic age in his movie “ I Live In Fear”, released in 1955 which presented his protégé Toshiro Mifune, who portrayed as an elderly and an obstinate businessman. Fearing the atomic nuclear attack, he came up with a decisive move to evacuate his family to South America. This was a very touching film by Kurosawa, which will definitely make you cry with the remnants and unforgettable memories of the devastating nuclear bombshell, which made history never the same again.
Visually, this movie was tremendously striking. The heat and effects were present in every scene. This was so clear from the sweaty backs of the attorneys in the courtroom, to the blazing sun, which hinted the film,’s closing moments. Throughout the film, you will see the people fanning themselves to be refreshed. However, I [...]

Akira Kurosawa, the noted Japanese filmmaker had creatively thought of a dramatic movie that transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky’s play with an intriguing 1957 release, “The Lower Depths,” from Russia to his very own native country, the Edo period. This was similarly compared to an era of cultural advances, offset by the miseries of those people who were not in aristocracy. This film focused on his favorite actor Mifune, as a crooked gambler, who fell in love with the sister of his cruel landlady.
Unknowingly, the main character in the story was not able to discover that the property owner had also felt the torch of love for him. As a result, the desperate woman had exacted a roundabout revenge by killing her spouse, and framed up the poor gambler for the crime. Madly in love, she had lost her frame of mind. Therefore, those poor people [...]