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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 Il, deIving into the state of his devastated nation with a series of pensive, topical dramas. Amid Japan's economic coIlapse and U.S. occupation, Kurosawa managed to find humor and redemption alongside despair and anxiety. ln these early films, which range from poIitical epic to Capraesque whimsy to courtroom potboiIer, Kurosawa revealed the artistic range and social acuity that wouId mark his carer and make him the most popuIar Japanese director in the worId.
No Regrets For Our Youth
Yukie , the spoiled bourgeois daughter of a university professor, begins a souI-searching journey that takes her from the eIegance of Kyoto to the peasant farms of impoverished rural Japan, the rise and faIl of ultranationalism corresponding with her own moraI awakening.
One WonderfuI Sunday
Yuzo and Masako, a middIe-class couple suffering from economic postwar decline, 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 financial reaIities.
Scandal
ln Kurosawa's look 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. Ichiro sues for IibeI, but his desperate, crooked Iawyer Hiruta , pIaying both sides, doesn't come to his defense.
The ldiot
ln Kurosawa's adaptation and update of Dostoyevsky's classic novel, the childlike ex-POW Kinji returns home after the war onIy to become trapped in an existentiaI Iove quadrangle. Toshiro Mifune and Setsuko Hara aIso contribute haunting performances in this tale of otherworldIy purity.
I Live In Fear
ln Kurosawa's evocation of nucIear-age anxieties, Toshiro Mifune transforms himself into a wizened Tokyo patriarch so paraIyzed by fear of the atomic bomb that he aIienates his entire extended family and recedes from society. |
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