A Month of Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala (1975)

A Month of Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala (1975)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! Dersu Uzala (1975) During a period in his career when Kurosawa had fallen out of favor and was no longer the influential icon he once was, he found himself deep in the Soviet Union making a film about nature,…
How to Protect your Business from Opportunistic Thieves

How to Protect your Business from Opportunistic Thieves

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Contributed Post Most thieves tend to be opportunistic. They see an opportunity and they seize it, without any concern for the hardworking owner who is putting in hours of their time just to keep the store in operation. If you want to protect your store against thieves then there are a few things that you can do about this, and it doesn’t take long for you to implement the below solutions. Making Changes The first thing that you need to do is change the layout of your store. It doesn’t matter what type of business you run, because the layout…
A Month of Kurosawa: Dodes’ka-Den (1970)

A Month of Kurosawa: Dodes’ka-Den (1970)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! Dodes’ka-Den (1970) By the late 1960s, Akira Kurosawa's career had somewhat skidded off the rails. The situation is too complex with these quickie capsule reviews, but the bottom line is that Toshiro Mifune was out of the picture, Kurosawa…
A Month of Kurosawa: Red Beard (1965)

A Month of Kurosawa: Red Beard (1965)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! Red Beard (1965) There has perhaps never been a film partnership as fruitful as the one between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. They made a string of classics together, helping launch one another into international stardom and into the…
A Month of Kurosawa: High and Low (1963)

A Month of Kurosawa: High and Low (1963)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! High and Low (1963) From the very start of his career, Akira Kurosawa was concerned with exploring the class divide, delving into the things that separates the wealthy from the poor. He had perhaps never explored this idea so…