Akira Kurosawa is a world-class film master recognized worldwide.
In hollywood, which pays attention to technique, the Hollywood masters have great respect for Akira Kurosawa.
Spielberg said Akira Kurosawa was the Shakespeare of the film industry, and the characters and stories in George Lucas's Star Wars mirrored Akira Kurosawa's Warring States Heroes.
Martin Scorsese suspended his own crew for "Good Guys" in order to star in Akira Kurosawa's "Dream", and Coppola repeatedly expressed his desire to be Akira Kurosawa's director's assistant and invested in his "Shadow Warrior" and "Dream".
In Europe, which admired authorship, Akira Kurosawa was also a master-level being.
Holy Trinity Bergman said his Virgin Springs was a poor parody of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon.
The Film Handbook and Sight and Hearing named Akira Kurosawa one of the ten greatest directors since the invention of cinema.
In the East, which despises his own people, to exaggerate, Akira Kurosawa's influence is unprecedented.
Chen Kaige's "JingKe Thorn Qin King" is to learn from Kurosawa Akira and bring his own culture to the world in the form of a movie.
Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and "Shadow" imitate Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" and "Shadow Warrior", and the scene scheduling in his films is also deeply rooted in Kurosawa's true biography.
Why is Akira Kurosawa so influential?
Because he used techniques to innovate the language of the film, let the latecomers enjoy the blessings, use the story to improve the friendliness of the film to the audience, and make the threshold for watching the film lower.
In the more than a hundred years since the birth of the film, there have been many big directors, but there are only a few directors who combine the two perfectly.
Truffaut, Godard, and Fellini are masters, but their films are obscure, and Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige are also masters, but they tell stories with humility, count the popular characters, and Akira Kurosawa.
Akira Kurosawa's films, even if the plot is boring, it is not a waste of time to enjoy the textbook-like mirroring and beautiful composition.
"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a top commercial film, combining martial arts, action, comedy and other elements, as well as Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, and Tatsuya Nakayo, three iron triangles that represent an era of Japanese cinema.
The story of Tsubaki Sanjuro is ups and downs, fascinating, and even after sixty years, it is still not eroded by time.
Wonderful group dramas, constantly reversing plots, bright and concise rhythms, clean and crisp actions, and philosophical Confucian ideas have made the audience addicted at the same time, but also affected the development of Italian Westerns.
Under Akira Kurosawa's lens, Toshiro Mifune's charm is always unstoppable.
Whether it is "Stick of Hearts" or "Tsubaki Thirty", the samurai played by Toshiro Mifune is sloppy, arrogant and poisonous.
However, the chivalry in his body masked all the shortcomings, which made Tsubaki Sanshiro more of a real person than a perfect chivalrous guest.
The story of Tsubaki Sanjuro begins with Tsubaki Sanjuro and ends with camellias.
In the end, Tsubaki Sanjuro was like a camellia flower, blooming bright flowers, falling to the ground into spring mud, silent.
His chivalry is not like those heroes who serve the country and the people, carrying the righteousness of the country on their shoulders, upright, and high, and his hero is because he has done what he thinks is right, recognized by a group of people, and has been treated with a welcome in the middle of the road.
Maybe this kind of hero is a little hero, but for those he helps, Tsubaki Sanshiro is a well-deserved hero.
And he can also do "things to whisk away, hide deeply and famous", so open-minded, not greedy for fame and fortune, I am afraid that not just a "chivalrous" word can be summarized.
This is the theme of "Tsubaki Thirty Lang" to sublimate, the hero can do the world, but what makes the world peaceful is peace.
The knife does not lie in killing, in Tibet, the sharper the blade, the easier it is to fall, but it is also easy to fold, the knife is sheathed, and it is set out in peace, except for anger, no killing, and scheming, and only then will it be convincing and reducing bloodshed.
This is also the most fundamental reason for the success of Tsubaki Sanjuro and the failure of the Muroto Half Guard, what is not to kill? Not killing is peace, with peace there will be peace and contentment, the world will be the people's will, is the real chivalrous.
In addition to Tsubaki Sanjuō, Sengoku Heroes is also an example of Akira Kurosawa as a master.
The story takes place in the warring states during the chaos of the Warring States, when the Akizuki Kingdom is defeated by the Yamana Kingdom, and the general Makoto and the princess and some remnants of the party are able to escape.
They hid the gold in the bunker, planned to take the princess with them, and used the gold as a military salary to sneak to the Allied kingdom hayakawa with the intention of restoring the country.
In order to achieve this goal, Zhenbi recruited two poor people, Taiping and Youqi, and began their adventure like a road piece.
On the way, they saved a civilian girl and encountered many difficulties.
In the end, they all turned the danger into a disaster with an unexpected ending, and exported a truth of "not suffering from widowhood but suffering from inequality".
This kind of drama structure makes "Warring States Hero" a famous fable for future generations to create.
The technique of "Warring States Heroes" is amazing.
First, it is easy to set up a positive character of Wei Guangzheng in the movie, and the movie has been doing this from scratch, but it is difficult to understand the funny, funny, and clowns who connect the main line.
Taiping and Youqi in "Warring States Heroes" are brainless and unhappy type characters, who are responsible for highlighting the protagonists, adding to the comedic effect of the film, and also playing a role in pointing out the theme and carrying on the upper and lower levels.
Akira Kurosawa did not make them tool people in the film, but only used to promote the development of the plot, but made them an indispensable element of the film, and the template set by the characters in the genre film after that.
The second is the shot, in which Toshiro Mifune single-handedly rides a horse to chase and chase the pursuing soldiers, which is an understatement of Kurosawa's showmanship.
In this shot, Akira Kurosawa uses mirrors, editing, light and shadow to make the horse's running fast, make the image of Toshiro Mifune become tall, and make the picture look complementary.
But now, 64 years later, film equipment, editing tools, and special effects technology have made a qualitative leap, and there are few scenes like this.
The third is composition, the composition in Akira Kurosawa's films is a cliché, and the triangle and the picturesque composition have always been the topic of people's talk.
But in Sengoku Heroes, Akira Kurosawa's first wide-screen film, he innovated again, showing a diagonal composition of central symmetry.
They captured two enemy soldiers, and a group of seven climbed the mountain with gold on their backs.
At this time, the camera gives a long-range view, the characters are on a diagonal, but the look and feel are not tilted, no different from the normal perspective, such a composition is really a master's hand.
Such a Kurosawa Akira, how to make people dislike, with no amount of adjectives can explain his greatness.
The only pity is that Akira Kurosawa has always wanted to co-produce a movie with Bergman and Fellini, but until the death of all three of them, it has not been formed, which is a major regret in film history.