While I was watching the first out of three Kuroswawa films, Stray Dog, I realized I was not going to enjoy these movies at all. I thought that movie was very boring and didn't really have a interesting plot. Not only that, but I hate sub-titles and I hate listening to movies in other languages. I just don't believe these movies are my type. Kurosawa is a good director though, his other movies that we watched, Yojimbo and Ran, were better than the first one. They were a little more intense and interesting. Like in Yojimbo, Kurosawa used wind as a symbol to make things more suspensful, the use of weather was very important in this film. In Ran I thought he used a good choice of music, slow or no music when needed or loud at certain points. Weather was also used in this film to make scenes more interesting. I also hate movies with fighting and violence, so that made these movies a lot less entertaining as well because a lot of the times I didn't want to look. The blood was disgusting and I thought it was really unnecessary to watch that more than once because I was going to throw up, I up we never watch a movie with blood in it again. Overall, I think Kurosawa is a good director, but it was just not my type at all, so I wasn't always so interested.
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Haha Nevins...I kind of feel the same way about his films. I think they are really only appealing to a small audience, or maybe just a more mature one, which is fine. I think at least from what I could tell in my class, at the end of each movie kids were like "K, so....wait what?" ya know...just like no one knew what was going on, what the plot was, who the characters were or anything, so it just kind of felt like a big waste of time. The one thing I really genuinely think Kurosawa did a good job on was like you said, making connections with weather and such because no matter what language you speak, you don't need to know Japanese to understand that connection, and thats something profound in my mind.
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