Posts Tagged ‘Akira Kurosawa’

  • Chintu Ji : Fiesta for entire family
    Film’s tag line (This film is part reality, part illusion and part fact, part fiction) summarizes very well the category in which this film can be defined. Rishi Kapoor plays himself, Rishi Kapoor the film star who is better known by his nickname Chintu. But except using real profession and real names of Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Raj Kapoor and Krishna Kapoor film...
    by Rk at September 4th, 2009 at 01:09 pm
  • Samurai’s Bushido in Cinema
    iView Author: Ram V (Bangalore, India) Email: Shrey.dna [at]gmail[dot]com Samurai’s Bushido in cinema I have no enemy; I make Incautiousness my Enemy. I have no armour; I make Benevolence my Armour. I have no castle; I make Immovable Mind my Castle. I have no sword; I make No Mind my Sword. - The Samurai Creed The Dawn of the Samurai Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Shchinin...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 27th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
  • Stray Dog – Nora Inu
    It is hard to imagine that the greatest of directors have had humble beginnings. After watching Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Akahige, The Bad Sleep Well (and so on) and the exquisite style in each and every movie, it never crossed my mind that even the great Mr. Kurosawa might have had a few ‘earlier’ movies. Last week, when I was window shopping for nothing...
    by Sarang at March 13th, 2009 at 07:03 pm
  • Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
    The Dreams of Akira Kurosawa I visited a friend to get some DVD’s as I was very bored and wanted to watch a film , he tells me that he has the DVD of the movie DREAMS. I jump with joy thinking that it is Ingmar Bergman’s Dreams (1955) (I feel that I am the biggest fan of Ingmar Bergman).To my disappointment It turns out to be Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990). I...
    by Krishna at February 14th, 2009 at 10:02 am
  • Ikiru
    Ikiru Disclaimer: There is a spoiler in the second last paragraph(only a line), you may want to avoid it if you have not seen the movie. Watnabe knows he will die. Soon. But, it is not death that scares the wits out of him. It is life. His life. A lifetime of wasted opportunity. A life of failed expectations would have been still better. His was a life of no expectations....
    by Tanul Thakur at November 22nd, 2008 at 07:11 pm
  • A few thoughts on Bengali cinema……
    iView Author: SUDDHASATYA GHOSH (Kolkata, India) EMAIL: withheld A few thoughts on Bengali cinema…… Passion for cinema has produced a few pages of Sudhir Mishra’s diary for readers and expectantly brilliances of Sudhir came out in open in that space. Sudhir is a name in ‘so-called’ parallel cinema or in good cinema, if I am allowed to use Satyajit Ray’s...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 9th, 2008 at 03:06 am