185. KUROSAWA flm reviews, Part II

Click on Film/KUROSAWA1 to see my "frame-by-frame" analyses of the first ten films.

The following links will take you to my most recent reviews (January 2010) for my friend David Lehman's blog, The Best American Poetry:

1. Sugata sanshiro (Judo Saga) [1943]
2. Ichiban utsukushiku (The Most Beautiful) [1944]
3. Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi (The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail) [1945]
4. Zoku sugata sanshiro (Judo Saga II) [1945]
5. Waga seishun ni kuinashi (No Regrets for Our Youth) [1946]
6. Subarashiki nichiyobi (One Wonderful Sunday) [1947]
7. Yoidore tenshi (Drunken Angel) [1948]
8. Shizukanaru ketto (The Quiet Duel) [1949]
9. Nora inu (Stray Dog) [1949]
10. Shubun (Scandal) [1950]
11. Rashomon (In the Woods) [1950]
12. Hakuchi (The Idiot) [1951]
13. Ikiru (To Live) [1952]
14. Shichinin no samurai (The Seven Samurai) [1954]
15. Ikimono no kiroku (I Live in Fear/Record of a Living Being) [1955]
16. Kumonosu jo (Throne of Blood) [1957]
17. Donzoko (The Lower Depths) [1957]
18. Kakushi toride no san akunin (The Hidden Fortress) [1958]
19. Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) [1960]
20. Yojimbo (The Bodyguard) [1961]
21. Tsubaki Sanjûro [1962]
22. Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low) [1963]
23. Akahige (Red Beard) [1965]
24. Dodesukaden [1970]
25. Dersu Uzala [1975]
26. Kagemusha (The Double/Shadow Warrior) [1980]
27. Ran (Chaos) [1985]
28. Yume (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams) [1990]
29. Hachigatsu no kyoshikyoku (Rhapsody in August) [1991]
30. Madadayo (Not Yet) [1993]