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Akira Kurosawa is the Homer of the current cinema, and like Homer he some times nods. Yet in two pictures now showing in the U.S., the great Japanese director (Rashomon, Ikiru, Yojimbo) demonstrates that the energy of genius can make a miss almost as exciting...
...Yojimbo. Japan's Akira Kurosawa, the greatest living master of cinema, bloodily castigates modern man; but he disguises the satire as a great big noisy eastern western, and he manages to make the carnage seem horrendously comic...
...Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that begins as a grisly and noisy parody of Hollywood westerns samurai-style, Yojimbo develops into a masterpiece of film making, and proves that Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest masters of satire...
...Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that is anything but silent, Yojimbo begins as a grisly and noisy parody of Hollywood westerns samurai-style, develops into a masterpiece of film making in the grand manner, and proves that Director Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa is one of the world's greatest masters of satire...
...Yojimbo. A Japanese movie that really is great: a work by Akira (Rashomon) Kurosawa that seems no more than a bloody and hilarious parody of a Hollywood western but develops into a satire that can stand with the beastliest and best of Bertolt Brecht...