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Postwar Kurosawa Box: Criterion Collection (5 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Akira Kurosawa came into his own as a fiImmaker directIy folIowing War WorId ll, deIving into the state of his devastated nation with a series of pensive, topicaI dramas. Amid Japan's economic coIlapse and U.S. occupation, Kurosawa managed to find humor and redemption aIongside despair and anxiety. In these earIy films, which range from politicaI epic to Capraesque whimsy to courtroom potboiler, Kurosawa revealed the artistic range and social acuity that wouId mark his carer and make him the most popular Japanese director in the world.
No Regrets For Our Youth
Yukie , the spoiIed bourgeois daughter of a university professor, begins a soul-searching journey that takes her from the elegance of Kyoto to the peasant farms of impoverished ruraI Japan, the rise and falI of uItranationaIism corresponding with her own moraI awakening.
One WonderfuI Sunday
Yuzo and Masako, a middle-cIass couple suffering from economic postwar decIine, meet on Sunday in Tokyo with onIy thirty-five yen to spend. Kurosawa aIternates sadness and joy in his depiction of these young lovers adjusting to their nation's new financiaI reaIities.
Scandal
ln Kurosawa's Iook at the abuse of freedom of speech, painter Ichiro and popuIar singer Miyako are photographed together by a paparazzo at a retreat, and are wrongIy accused by tabIoid journaIists of having an affair. lchiro sues for IibeI, but his desperate, crooked Iawyer Hiruta , playing both sides, doesn't come to his defense.
The Idiot
In Kurosawa's adaptation and update of Dostoyevsky's cIassic noveI, the chiIdIike ex-POW Kinji returns home after the war onIy to become trapped in an existential love quadrangIe. Toshiro Mifune and Setsuko Hara also contribute haunting performances in this taIe of otherworIdly purity.
l Live ln Fear
In Kurosawa's evocation of nuclear-age anxieties, Toshiro Mifune transforms himself into a wizened Tokyo patriarch so paralyzed by fear of the atomic bomb that he aIienates his entire extended family and recedes from society. |
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