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Something Like a Filmography: Madadayo (1993)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: For his final film, Akira Kurosawa paid tribute to the immensely popular writer and educator Hyakken Uchida, here … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Madadayo (1993)

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Something Like a Filmography: Rhapsody in August (1991)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Set in the gorgeous countryside surrounding, this endearing saga follows a Japanese family once torn apart by war … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Rhapsody in August (1991)

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Something Like a Filmography: Dreams (1990)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Dreams (1990)

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Something Like a Filmography: Ran (1985)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Ran (1985)

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Something Like a Filmography: Kagemusha (1980)

Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Kagemusha (1980)