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**GutleNus** · 01-27-2006, 03:23 AM

Kurosawa's samurai movies are basically japanese western, that we find it so arty is an aside. However his other movies are IMHO much better.

Actually Kurosawa laid the template for the 'Western' movie. Shichnin No Samurai combined many elements of action cinematography together to create the first real action movie. This was later copied by Hollywood

This aside, the setting is accurately researched and extremely well put out. Yojimbo, Sanjuro, 7 Samurai, etc may be in essence faily simple plot lines, but the depth of the setting is so rich, that its hard to not think of them as art. Sanjuro, for example acts partially as a spoof of jidai geki movies that preceeded it by playing out a number of expected scenarios.

Ran, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Red Beard, etc, etc are all Jidai Geki movies, but they certainly aren't "Westerns".

01-27-2006, 03:23 AM	#17
GutleNus Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 440 Senior Member	Kurosawa's samurai movies are basically japanese western, that we find it so arty is an aside. However his other movies are IMHO much better. Actually Kurosawa laid the template for the 'Western' movie. Shichnin No Samurai combined many elements of action cinematography together to create the first real action movie. This was later copied by Hollywood This aside, the setting is accurately researched and extremely well put out. Yojimbo, Sanjuro, 7 Samurai, etc may be in essence faily simple plot lines, but the depth of the setting is so rich, that its hard to not think of them as art. Sanjuro, for example acts partially as a spoof of jidai geki movies that preceeded it by playing out a number of expected scenarios. Ran, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Red Beard, etc, etc are all Jidai Geki movies, but they certainly aren't "Westerns".
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