This was a nice movie.. love the theme. Yojimbo, seven Samurai and lol i live in fear i apreciate more... but in this movie, the strongest scene is when he becomes a mountain like his master.
The most underrated movie theme ever. There's everything in it. The glory and epicness, the despair and sadness, the mourning of a fallen hero and the nostalgia of those defining years during which Japan was changed forever.
The ending scene was very painful... The way he tried to desperately retrieve the fürinkazan from the rivier with that look in his eyes and fails... He remained loyal towards the clas until the bitter end, even though he was treated like dirt by them. The entire story coupled with the music and that last scene made me cry bitterly...
It's elegant disdain of explanations, protects this masterpiece from public aclamation. Such is Kurosawa's regard. An ethic posture always precedes an esthetic work.
Very true. SS is great and all, but it's been hyped up to the point that most people only know Kurosawa for that one movie. Probably has something to do with the story about it being the inspiration for Star Wars that's made people associate Kurosawa with just that one movie
whoever says that is just cheap and mainstream in my opinion. when I visualize the depth of the scenes in the film and listen to the music, I can't help but feel a melancholic sense of being lost.
This is a great prominent theme for the Master's comeback in 1980! That George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped finance it just shows how influential Akira Kurosawa was to filmmakers around the world, and this theme alone really signifies the scope and spirit of the Sensei's impact! My top favorite scene in it is the dream, all silent, with that painted psychedelic background... it just still haunts me to this day!
One of the great movies of all time. I have always thought that Kurosawa's brilliant twist was to lead us to expect a psychological story about the pressures of the life of the shadow warrior, but then the story all but abandons him and we realize that he is not the subject of the story, but the Takeda clan and the great desire of Takeda Shingen which attempts to surpass even death. The shadow warrior turns out to be merely incidental to that story. I think Kurosawa was proposing a uniquely Japanese concept of tragedy, not of the individual per the Greeks, but collectively of the clan.
"I know it is difficult. I was for a long time the lord's double. It was torture. It is not easy to suppress yourself to become another. Often I wanted to be myself and free. But now I think this was selfish of me. The shadow of a man can never desert that man. I was my brother's shadow. Now that I have lost him, it is as though I am nothing." This is a very individual tragedy. The kagemusha begins by faking that he is Takeda Shingen, but gradually loses his sense of self and becomes almost possessed by the ghost of Shingen. It only seems not very individualistic because Holywood is filled with solipsists.
To me, I was so disappointed, that Kagemusha basically killed himself at the end and that they reversed his character development. Perhaps it was a cultural thing. Maybe there is something I'm missing, because I am an European.
@@Filip_Agrippa the end of the movie is what makes it a masterpiece. It shows that the kagemusha who was a bandit if i remember finally found a cause to die for (the Takeda clan). And the scene where his body float in the river while the flag he was trying to take, floats in the other way, passing near him is beautiful.
@@Filip_Agrippa to my understanding, sometimes even a "petty thief" like Kagemusha would act wiser and more true than some royal and loyal person like Lord Katsuyori (Takeda's son). Kagemusha felt the emotion "belonging to something" with his role, since all the people around him his bodyguards, pages, his grandson were like his family he never felt before. After spending like 1,5 years with these people, even a petty thief like Kagemusha would understand the true meaning of being a "mountain". Yet Katsuyori's judgement was clouded with ambition and heartbreak for his late father's decisions... These led to his catastrophic decisions in final war and to the scene where Kagemusha gave his last breath for everything he held dear.
Dans un trou noir, le soleil ne peut que se coucher jamais se lever puisqu'il serait avalé et ne pourrait réapparaitre , le rayon vert explique une garde du soleil à ressusciter dans le temps, cette garde est liée à la rotondité de la Terre, le mouvement de rotation terrestre qui nous ramène le soleil et donc l'espoir de vie.
Tortuga Humana You don’t understand, this is one thing, but you don’t even try despite the easy to use traduction button (literally one touch). You are surrending yourself agaisnt nothing less than culture and intellectual curiosity. ¡Cbrn!
ma maman n'aurait été dans une autre vie qu'une pauvre esclave chrétienne , Mariah la copte...J'ai l'impression que mes gènes sont chrétiens si moi je ne le suis pas...
