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Х Знакомства для общения на английском языке
Х Akira Kurosawa - Legendary Japanese movie director
Х Ancient Japanese Poetry Inspired by Sakura

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Akira Kurosawa - Legendary Japanese movie director

Akira Kurosawa - Legendary Japanese movie director

Despite the relative obscurity of the Japanese language, the Japanese movie industry has produced some directors whose finest works rank highly among the world's best movies. Akira Kurosawa is the best known and most accomplished.

Kurosawa has had a greater influence on world cinema than any other Japanese director, ranging from the works of Steven Spielberg to the 'spaghetti westerns' of Clint Eastwood. He started out as a painter, trained in the Western school, but gave it up to become an assistant director at the age of 26. He also became an accomplished scriptwriter before making his directorial debut in 1943 with the entertaining Sugata Sanshiro, full of exciting martial arts fight scenes. After World War II, he made several films dealing with the war and its aftermath which enhanced his reputation. In 1950, Kurosawa used medieval Japan as the setting for the first of his great works, Rashomon. It centers around four characters different 'true' accounts of a rape and murder and examines the nature of truth.

Rashomon was the first Japanese movie to win an international award, taking first prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1951. It also launched the career of actor Mifune Toshiro (1920-98), who appeared in 16 of Kurosawa's 29 films. To Live (Ikiru, 1952) dealt with the question of how we can live a meaningful life through the story of a bureaucrat who has cancer and only six months to live. Kurosawa's next film, the epic Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai, 1954), hardly needs an introduction. It always ranks as one of the greatest films ever made and even inspired a classic western, The Magnificent Seven. An unemployed samurai is asked to help a farm village under attack from bandits. He recruits six others and together they defeat the bandits but not without losing four of their own. A film of heroism, humor and humanity, it affirms the need to fight for a good cause but asks "At what price?".

Other Kurosawa classics include Yojimbo (1961) and The Shadow Warrior (Kagemusha, 1980). The former was remade as the classic Clint Eastwood western A Fistful of Dollars while the latter won the Grand Prix at Cannes. In 1990, he made Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Yume) and was awarded a lifetime achievement Academy Award in Hollywood. His last film, No, Not Yet! (Mada Dayo) was released in 1993.

Kurosawa readily acknowledged the great director Mizoguchi Kenji as his master. But it was his relationship with the West that most easily seen in his work. While his films influenced many foreign filmmakers, he was in turn influenced by the great American director John Ford and the works of foreign writers. The Idiot (Hakuchi, 1951) was based on the Dostoevsky novel, The Lower Depths (Donzoko, 1957) on the Gorky play, while Throne of Blood (Kumonosujo, 1957) and Ran (1985) were versions of Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear. Within the Japanese film world, Kurosawa was both praised and vilified for being such a 'Western' director, as if his films were seen as somehow not quite Japanese. The criticism and difficulties he encountered as a result led him to attempt suicide in 1971.

After an attempted suicide, Kurosawa went on to make several more films although arranging domestic financing was highly difficult despite his international reputation. Dersu Uzala, made in the Soviet Union and set in Siberia in the early 20th century, was the only Kurosawa film made outside Japan and not in Japanese. It is about the friendship of a Russian explorer and a nomadic hunter. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film starring Maxim Munzuk as Dersu Uzala and Yury Solomin as Vladimir Arsenyev.

Kurosawa passed away in September 1998, less than a year after the death of his favorite leading man, Mifune. In 1999, a script which he completed just before his death was turned into the film When the Rain Lifts (Ame Agaru). A period piece with a fine cast, the film was warmly received but clearly lacked one thing - the magic of one of the world's visionary directors.

"There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the director to make the film in the first place." Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)

Filmography: 

Sanshiro Sugata (1943) 
The Most Beautiful (1944) 
Sanshiro Sugata Part II aka Judo Saga 2 (1945) 
They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail (1945) 
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) 
One Wonderful Sunday (1946) 
Drunken Angel (1948) 
The Quiet Duel (1949) 
Stray Dog (1949) 
Scandal (1950) 
Rashomon (1950) 
The Idiot (1951) 
Ikiru aka To Live (1952) 
The Seven Samurai (1954) 
Record of a Living Being aka I Live in Fear (1955) 
The Throne of Blood aka Spider Web Castle (1957) 
The Lower Depths (1957) 
The Hidden Fortress (1958) 
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) 
Yojimbo aka The Bodyguard (1961) 
Sanjuro (1962) 
High and Low aka Heaven and Hell (1963) 
Red Beard (1965) 
Dodesukaden (1970) 
Dersu Uzala (1975) 
Kagemusha aka Shadow Warrior (1980) 
Ran (1985) 
Dreams aka Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990) 
Rhapsody in August (1991) 
Madadayo aka Not Yet (1993)

Unknown words:
obscurity - непонятность
to rank - ценить; занимать какое-л. Место
accomplished - законченный, полный, совершенный
martial art - боевое искусство
aftermath - последствия, состояние после
to enhance - увеличивать, усиливать, улучшать
medieval - средневековый
setting - окружающая обстановка; декорации и костюмы
to inspire - вдохновлять
to defeat - одержать победу, наносить поражение
to release - выпускать в прокат ( о фильме )
to vilify - поносить, чернить ( кого-л. )
to encounter - наталкиваться, столкнуться ( с трудностями )
lavish - щедрый; неумеренный, расточительный
gourmet - гурман

Ancient Japanese Poetry Inspired by Sakura

Ancient Japanese Poetry Inspired by Sakura


As the years stream by
My own life passes from me
Still I am renewed when I see the blossoms
My heart's sorrows disappear
-- by Fujiwara no Yoshifusa



I'll dye my summer garments
Deeply with cherry blossoms' fresh colour
And be cloaked in memories
Of flower clusters when they are gone
-- by Ki no Aritomo



After the petals in my garden have fallen
How I shall miss those
Who came to visit
Only to view the cherry blossom
-- by Oshikochi no Mitsune



The hue of the cherry
fades too quickly from sight
all for nothing
this body of mine grows old --
spring rain ceaselessly falling.
-- by Ono no Komachi
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