With drought of good movies running in Amsterdam, because I have seen most of the good ones I had to search of something that I would be interested in and I found this one. Why this one is interesting for me is because I am a BIG fan of Akira Kurosawa. I have heard a lot about him, read a lot about him, and seen his movie trailers but never got to see a full feature film of his. I never wanted to see one on a small screen because Akira brings a magical life on big canvass. With special screening of classics, I was really fortunate to see the first movie of my life of Akira The Bad Sleep Well.
The story is a revenge drama the man to revenge his father's death, marries a disabled daughter of a corrupt industrialist and works bottom up the system to expose and destroy the industrial empire the only problem is he falls in love with the daughter.
From Indian context the story sound very familiar, but remember this movie was made in early 1960s, it is an epic drama, the ending is also unusual and it is made by Akira Kurosawa. All this things made the movie different. It is not one of the best known movies of Akira, but even though it is a very good one.
For someone like me who is seeing the first movie of Akira, it is a huge learning experience in movie making. The immense effort in the script and characters is evident, and the coverage of cinema frame is enormous. The placement and movements of characters, the emotional range within a scene, the interplay of light and dark shadows and the expressiveness of events are full of surprises.
I hear the Akira likes to repeat his cast and I see two of them here - Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. Both have acted excellently. The musical score is aptly played only when necessary.
With an awe I came out from my first lesson of Akira and hear from a husband to his Japanese wife "This was not as good a movie as Akira makes " If this was not, what would be the real good ones Ran, Rashomon, Seven Samurias etc. I wait eagerly to see them all (Stars 7.5 out of 10)
The story is a revenge drama the man to revenge his father's death, marries a disabled daughter of a corrupt industrialist and works bottom up the system to expose and destroy the industrial empire the only problem is he falls in love with the daughter.
From Indian context the story sound very familiar, but remember this movie was made in early 1960s, it is an epic drama, the ending is also unusual and it is made by Akira Kurosawa. All this things made the movie different. It is not one of the best known movies of Akira, but even though it is a very good one.
For someone like me who is seeing the first movie of Akira, it is a huge learning experience in movie making. The immense effort in the script and characters is evident, and the coverage of cinema frame is enormous. The placement and movements of characters, the emotional range within a scene, the interplay of light and dark shadows and the expressiveness of events are full of surprises.
I hear the Akira likes to repeat his cast and I see two of them here - Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura. Both have acted excellently. The musical score is aptly played only when necessary.
With an awe I came out from my first lesson of Akira and hear from a husband to his Japanese wife "This was not as good a movie as Akira makes " If this was not, what would be the real good ones Ran, Rashomon, Seven Samurias etc. I wait eagerly to see them all (Stars 7.5 out of 10)