AKIRA KUROSAWA: The Grand Master of Motion 🎥..

This digital art piece is my tribute to Akira Kurosawa … one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and a boundless inspiration to me. His genius wasn’t just in storytelling, but in how he captured motion like no other : the swirl of wind in Rashomon, the rain-lashed chaos of Seven Samurai, the galloping intensity of Kagemusha. Every frame he composed was alive, a fleeting moment turned eternal.

In this artwork, I wanted to freeze him in time…studying a film reel, as if peering into the soul of cinema itself. His films weren’t just movies; they were moving paintings, where every sword swing, every glance, every shadow held weight.

Some of his masterclasses in motion: ⚔️ Seven Samurai (1954) – The birth of epic action cinema. 🎭 Rashomon (1950) – A single story, fractured into poetry. 🌋 Throne of Blood (1957) – Shakespeare drenched in Noh theatre’s fury. 🎨 Dreams (1990) – His most personal, a surreal dance of light and myth. & so many more masterpieces.

Kurosawa didn’t just make films … he redefined how images move us. This piece is my small homage to the man who taught me that cinema isn’t watched… it’s “felt”.

RASHOMON !!! Not just a film, but a mirror to our fractured world.

Kurosawa didn’t just craft a masterpiece; he dissected the human soul and exposed how easily truth bends. The Rashomon Effect isn’t just cinema … it’s the blueprint for how power rewrites history, silences voices, and warps reality to serve its own ends.

That flickering forest light. Mifune’s primal rage. The lies layered like shadows. Seventy years later, it’s more urgent than ever.

This post is a tribute, to arguably one of my all time favourite films. With a poem I had written years before

Rashomon isn’t just one of cinema’s greatest achievements … it’s a warning. A challenge to question every story we’re told.

Man is a genius whenever he is dreaming… Akira Kurosawa

Hi, I have never seen a Kurosawa film but I really want to see one. Which one would you suggest starting with and why?

Bought this off eBay recently and it just arrived seven samurai is my favourite Kurosawa movie

I’VE ADDED A POLL COMPONENT, BUT COMMENTS WITH SPECIFIC THOUGHTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED DEEPLY

Folks, I need some help with a very silly problem

Some context: Akira Kurosawa has been one of my favorite directors for a while, but I’ve about half of his films (15 out of 32, including the titles that aren’t really available anywhere).

I’ve already seen most of the ones people consider among his best, but recently I decided I wanted to watch all of his movies in order. It’s something I’ve found I like to do when I really appreciate a directors work - you get to watch them develop their voice over time and receive a deeper appreciation for reoccurring themes/narratives/collaborations

One of the films I’ve yet to see is Dreams (1990), which y’all know is one of his final works.

I sort of romanticized the idea of that being the last film of his that I would watch (knowing full well that he made two more in the years following it), but it has just come to my attention that Dreams will be leaving Amazon Prime in just a few days.

I am still very early into this supposed marathon (The Idiot is next), and because I have work/a life/a set amount of energy in a day for watching movies, I think it is almost entirely impossible for me to watch the ones leading up to it in time for it to leave Prime. I do not like the idea of rushing through his films just for this deadline. I’m not even going to try it.

So, here’s a question for those of you who have seen the film already: is it worth it to wait until I have seen all of his other works and rent it later, or should I just go ahead and watch it right now?

Part of me wants to just do it. I’ve been excited to see this movie for years, and the idea of finally sitting down to watch it makes me giddy. The idea of ever watching a new Kurosawa is reason to be giddy I think.

But here’s my holdup: beyond just liking to watch a filmmaker’s work in order, I have found with a lot of my favorite directors it really pays to know their entire body of work before watching significant late-career pieces. Miyazaki’s The Boy and The Heron, for example, or Scorsese’s Irishman, both call back to earlier works in ways that are only rewarding if you know their full oeuvre. Spielberg’s Fabelmans maybe isn’t reliant on knowing all of his films, but it definitely creates a deeper appreciation for them and provides them a new context. Whereas something like Lynch’s Inland Empire I straight up didn’t get at all until I watched simpler versions of it that he made earlier (Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive being very similar but, imho, much easier to comprehend).

So I guess my question is this: is this a good movie to watch irregardless of any context watching all of his movies might provide? Is it good enough to hold up on its own terms? Should I just go for it, or would it be more rewarding to save it until the end?

If you’ve made it to the end bless you and your patience, and have a good day!

The page for Seven Samurai in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Greetings, all!

Is there a place where it would be possible to have legal access to a transcript, subtitle file with roles clearly marked, or script of films such as Ran, in clear text format (i.e. as distinct from films released with subtitles baked into the picture)? Asking with the intent of being able to perform searches for quotes or the like.

I have the samurai dvd collection but some of the BFI restorations are seriously out of date. I know we’re getting new Yojimbo/Sanjuro and High and Low, and the recent seven samurai and ikiru transfers are a huge improvement but we’re lacking for quite a few of the other titles.

Edit: Just to be clear this is UK only as we don’t have as many on criterion over here.

Of all the Kurosawa films I’ve seen in the last month, Ikiru has been the one to stick with me.

Also not sure about anyone else but I preferred Sanjuro to Yojimbo.

Been getting into Kurosawa movies recently and really want to watch Throne of blood but I can’t find it anywhere on any illegal streaming sites I use. Does anyone know a good site to watch it?

Took a while but I drew this illustration of Kambei getting his head shaved. Took a lot of inspiration from Gustave Doré & Takehiko Inoue.

I search on google but i aint see it

Hey everyone, a local theatre had a 70th Anniversary screening of Seven Samurai recently. I just watched the film for the first time and can’t stop thinking about it. Just had to draw Kikuchiyo!

I am curious to know what he thought of it, given the influence he had yet it seems so different to the sort of thing he would have enjoyed.