[HN Gopher] Akira Kurosawa's Record of a Living Being
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Akira Kurosawa's Record of a Living Being
Author : prismatic
Score : 62 points
Date : 2020-06-03 21:18 UTC (1 days ago)
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| RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote:
| For what it's worth, I would much rather my city get nuclear
| bombed than my city have to go through what Nanking went through
| at the hands of the Japanese Army.
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre
| deerIRL wrote:
| Another film that deals with Nuclear Holocaust, albeit more of
| the direct aftermath is BBC's Threads[1].
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
| _hardwaregeek wrote:
| I recently watched Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice which also deals
| with the threat of nuclear destruction. The main character is
| having a birthday dinner when the news informs everybody about
| the nuclear threat. The simplicity in which this information is
| revealed and the transition from the mundane to abject fear
| connected really well to modern times.
|
| It's interesting seeing film ideas repeat and be interpreted by
| multiple directors. It's almost like some ideas need to bounce
| from director to director before they find the right outlet. I
| Live In Fear begets Dr Strangelove begets The Sacrifice.
| Synaesthesia wrote:
| Any new Kurosawa movie is a treasure for me to discover. Dreams
| also had themes of nuclear holocaust. Quite topical today as the
| spectre of nuclear armageddon still hovers above.
| app4soft wrote:
| For the first time I watched Akira Kurosawa's films (mostly all
| of them in few weeks, but not yet "I Live in Fear") ten years
| ago.
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| "Yume", "Hachi-gatsu no rapusodi" and "Madadayo" are those which
| impressed me too much.
| dayofthedaleks wrote:
| I am eternally grateful that 'Dreams' hit me at 16.
| bogomipz wrote:
| This is a great site. Does anyone know if there's a good online
| resource to stream this Kursowa movie? And actually to stream any
| of the types of movies on cinemasojourns? Back in the day most
| major cities has a handful of cinephile type video rental places
| and now that those are long gone the only options have been the
| independent arthouse theater which of course are all closed on
| account of Covid-19. I looked into the Criterion streaming
| service at one point but was disappointed by how many of their
| titles weren't available on the service.
| inetsee wrote:
| One of the sections of this article that struck me as
| particularly relevant right now was this passage:
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| "Kurosawa later claimed that I Live in Fear was inspired by
| conversations he had with his longtime film composer Fumio
| Hayasaka, who had become seriously ill during the making of Seven
| Samurai. Hayasaka had said to him, "The world has come to such a
| state that we don't really know what is in store for us tomorrow.
| I wouldn't even know how to go on living - I'm that uncertain.
| Uncertainties, nothing but uncertainties. Every day there are
| fewer and fewer places that are safe. Soon there will be no place
| at all."
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| Hayasaka died during the filming, and "Kurosawa was devastated by
| his friend's death", which affected the direction the film took.
| downerending wrote:
| Wow. The film is iconic, of course, but I've always really
| liked the score. It's fitting, but also I always imagined that
| I could hear the circumstances of the filming (post-war Japan)
| in it as well.
| codr7 wrote:
| I've practiced fighting with knives/swords for a long time, this
| is of my all-time favorites:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Ypt67TQyI
| app4soft wrote:
| JFTR, Actual thread mostly about post nuclear war world.
| codr7 wrote:
| That's cool, it's still one of his best.
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