Word: yojimbo
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...meek shall inherit the earth-when they learn to fight for their rights. Ikiru (1952), Kurosawa's greatest work, describes the tragedy and transfiguration of a hopelessly ordinary man, a grubby little bookkeeper who does not dare to live until he learns he is going to die. Yojimbo (1962), conceived as a parody of the usual Hollywood western, mingles blood and belly laughs in a ferocious satire on the manners, morals and politics of the 20th century. I Live in Fear (1955), an eerie and comminatory meditation on the life of man in the shadow of the Bomb...
Galloping Whimsy. Though much of Partch's "corporeal music" is pleasing and oddly moving, the clucks, gurgles, thumps and thunders of his instruments sound like the score to Yojimbo, an effect that is reinforced by a recurrent and highly menacing meeeEEEOOOW! from his strings and an occasional unspecific crash that sounds like a Boo player collapsing...
...Idiot and Sanjuro. These two films by Japan's Akira Kurosawa are not in a class with his Rashomon or Yojimbo. But Kurosawa's genius can make a miss almost as good as a masterpiece...
...Idiot and Sanjuro. These two films by Japan's Akira Kurosawa are not in a class with his Rashomon or Yojimbo. But Kurosawa's genius can make a miss almost as good as a masterpiece...
Sanjuro, a sequel to Yojimbo, was made to make money, and it did. But in titillating the mass audience, Kurosawa evidently bored himself. In Yojimbo, he had an urgent idea: man is a beast and the world is better off without him. In Sanjuro, he confesses, "I had very little to say." He says it with impressive skill. Moviegoers who missed Yojimbo will assuredly find Sanjuro a bloody good show...