I dont disagree kurosawa is a great director, I love RAN. I just think with magnificent seven and fistful of dollars other directors improved improved upon his work, and with magnificent seven added 'humanity' for want of a better word, to the filmmaking.
Controversial I suppose but I much prefer Kinji Fukasaku, ishiro honda and a lot of the 'b' directors of material like lone wolf and cub, the streetfighter movies, lady snowblood, most of sonny chibas output to kurosawa.
|