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మా ఇంటి దగ్గర ఉన్న లైబ్రరీలలో ఒక సదుపాయం ఉంది. వారి దగ్గర లేని పుస్తకాలు, డివిడిలు మొత్తం మేరిలాండు లైబ్రరిలలో ఎక్కడైనా ఉంటే, సాలెగూళ్ళలో మనం వెతుక్కుని వాటిని కావాలని అభ్యర్ధన పెట్టుకుంటే, చిల్లి గవ్వ కూడా అడగకుండా తెచ్చి పెడతారు. బావుంది కదా అని రెండు కురొసావా సినిమాలు కావాలని చెప్పాను. ఒకటి 'డ్రంకెన్ ఎంజల్' ఇంకోటి 'సంజురొ' - ఎప్పుడెప్పుడొస్తాయా అని ఆత్రుతతో ఎదురుచూస్తున్న నాకు, ఈ రోజు వచ్చి
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"Mada Kai" the students shout in unison. "Madadayo" shouts back the German professor. It is their annual get together - a ritual they religiously follow ever since their beloved professor retired. They tell jokes, get drunk, have a good time and then shout "Mada Kai" meaning "are you ready (for death)?" for which the professor always shoots back a "Madadayo", "not yet".Kurosawa's last movie is
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Akira Kurosawa's Ran is based on Shakespeare's King Lear, the Video cassette's blurb said. Otherwise I wouldn't have known having never read King Lear. Kurosawa's love for mounting epical movies, tragedies at that, resulted in Kagemusha and Ran. Both tell us of the futility of wars and how kings' hunger for power and ego have far reaching consequences for people around them. ==Tatsuya Nakadai
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History is replete with stories of kings leading troops into internecine wars - why go far back into time, we are seeing one such war right now ఇరాక్ లో. Balm the ego, Get the lady, Sieze the land, Get the oil reserves or whatever whim it might be, foot soldiers rush ahead at the king's orders into wars they understand very little about. Takeda clan in 16th century Japan (not a unified country at
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While watching Akira Kurosawa's gripping and suspenseful movie High and Low, I remembered an anecdote from Thomas Friedman's The world is flat where he compares two countries. Take a kid and his dad walking past a grand mansion. In the first country the kid says to his dad "I'll own such a thing one day", in the second the kid swears to his dad "I'll kill that owner one day". The difference?
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Wars take their toll on winners and losers alike with the commonfolk feeling aftereffects long after the cessation of hostilities. Japan in late 1940s was recovering from WW2 battering with many of its soldiers trying to bury the bloody war past behind and assimilate into the society. Some succeeded, some did not. Those who did not, strayed into dangerous paths creating problems for themselves
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Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru tells us the story of an aging bureaucrat and his rekindled love for life when he finds out his end is near. In this moving story, the master director shows us how one can choose to take control of life, do as the heart says, enjoy life as it is; but so often we get busy living lives we never wanted - that living busily becomes life. Sad are such lives that find desire to
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