movies were born in the West. In addition to various historical reasons, Asian film art has always been behind the West, and there are only a handful of great directors who can be called "masters". But in the last century, a Japanese director stepped onto the stage of film art and shocked the whole world with his work. He was Akira Kurosawa.
Kurosawa Akira is the first Asian director to win the highest honor on the western movie stage. Today, he is still recognized as the world’s number one director in Asia. Coppola and George Lucas are his fans. Spielberg even called him the "Shakespeare of the film industry", and Zhang Yimou, who we are very familiar with, has also paid tribute to Kurosawa in many of his works. This time, let my uncle and his friends briefly understand the three representative works of Akira Kurosawa.
"Rashomon"
"Rashomon" is an early work by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from the novel "Bamboo Forest" by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. The story of "Rashomon" is very simple to summarize. The four samurai, the samurai's wife, the robber and the witness described the same crime from their own perspectives, and the rhetoric chosen by the first three people is biased towards themselves.
After many people talk about the same thing, it turns into several completely different stories. Kurosawa uses a slightly absurd story to think about a weakness of human nature. You can hardly imagine that this is a movie from the 1950s. movie of.
"Seven Samurai"
Some people think that "Seven Samurai" is a Japanese-style western film, where heroes fight against bad guys and protect the people at the bottom. But from a deeper level, "Seven Samurai" shows not only the conflict between the samurai, the villager and the robber, but also the conflict between honor and survival, and even between the warrior class and the peasant class.
The leader of the seven samurai, Kanbei, is the perfect samurai in Kurosawa's heart. He has the sense of honor of a samurai in his heart, and he is also able to face the future.
"Shadow Warrior"
"Shadow Warrior" may be Kurosawa Akira's most famous movie. The filming of this film was once stranded because of insufficient funds. Coppola and George Lucas were on vacation in Japan. After knowing this, he waved his hand and solved the funding problem for Akira Kurosawa.
, as a color film by Akira Kurosawa, "Shadow Warrior" has left a strong mark in the history of film art, especially in large-scale scene scheduling, the use of color and other techniques can be said to have achieved the ultimate. The stories of Shingen Takeda and the shadow samurai mentioned therein are tribute to various movies and games.
In the SLG mobile game "Kyushu Tribulation", the various designs of Shingen Takeda and the Shadow Samurai warriors pay tribute to this classic movie by Akira Kurosawa. Except for siege growth, the attributes of the two generals in the game are exactly the same. Takeda Shingen's exclusive skill is "Wind Forest Volcano", and the exclusive skill of Shadow Warrior is "Wind Forest Fire". Shingen's skill is effective against friendly forces, while Shadow Warrior is effective against enemy forces.
In the movie, Shingen Takeda is hailed as the "immovable mountain" of the Takeda family, and the existence of Kagemusha is mainly to deter foreign enemies. Kurosawa's movies are both easy to understand and intriguing, which is what makes the master great. I don’t know which one of Kurosawa’s films is your favorite? May wish to analyze it with your friends below!
