Tag Archive: Clint Eastwood
Eric San Juan
November 21, 2018
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! Sanjuro (1962) It’s interesting that a film best known for its bloody final duel (a scene that proved highly influential to directors like Quentin Tarantino) and a sequel to the often violent Yojimbo is in reality a meditation on non-violence. Yojimbo was such a huge success that Kurosawa got right to work on a sequel. Sanjuro follows the titular character on another western-like adventure,…
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Films
A Month of Kurosawa, action movies, Akira Kurosawa, cinema, classic film, classic movies, Clint Eastwood, film, films, Japan, Japanese cinema, Japanese films, Japanese movies, movies, samurai, samurai movies, Toshiro Mifune, westerns
Eric San Juan
November 20, 2018
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! Yojimbo (1961) In 1957, Miles Davis released the album Birth of the Cool (though it was actually recorded in 1949 and 1950). It was a landmark record that helped change the face of jazz to come. Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 samurai classic Yojimbo could also have been called Birth of the Cool, given that it spawned an entire genre of badasses in western flicks, led…
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Films
A Month of Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, awesome, classic film, classic movies, Clint Eastwood, film, films, Japanese cinema, Japanese film, Japanese movies, movies, samurai, samurai movies, Sergio Leone, Toshiro Mifune, westerns, Yojimbo
