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Madadayo, Akira Kurosawa, 1993.

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My top ten and bottom ten new watches of the month.

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Madadayo on Letterboxd

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Se fosse ao contrário... a vida imitasse a arte eu seria:

- O monstro de Stevenson, mas também seria o médico;

- O cara estranho no Blue Note

Sendo uma Música seria Jazz

ou Bolero ... o de Ravel..

de Milestone, dos Onze...eu seria o Segredo.

- Mrs Dalloway de Virgínia Woolf;

E se musica, Kind Of Blue

Um Elemento...seria o Vento..

- Hercule Poirot de Agatha Christie;

Se uma Cor...seria BLUE

..se tivesse asas, um Mk V seria sim

De Bogart seria Casablanca... CLARO!

uma Viagem, seria no Expresso Oriente...

- Sherlock Holmes, mas não o de Conan Doyle, e sim o de Jô Soares;

- De Conan Doyle eu seria Watson, meu caro Watson;

-Cavaleiro Templário, mas isso já foi há muito tempo atrás;

- A indecisão de Macbet

e de Ridley Scott eu seria Max Skinner

- A fusão elegante de Grant e Dexter...

- O anônimo de Manhattan

- A irreverência de Allen, teria sim;

- Um pouco de cada musica de Miles Davis

E de Tristão seria Isolda

.. o swing de Goodman

Se fosse cantar..só na Chuva

um Espelho seria Mágico

Se fosse Luar...seria sobre Paradiso.

E um lugar.. teria que ser Londres.

Um encontro seria assim… Round Midnight

- A Relíquia de John Huston

- Se de Kurosawa, estaria em Madadayo;

- De Almodóvar... seria todas.

Seria tipo 4, no eneagrama da transformação (sob análise, mas tenho quase certeza);

Se fosse força, seria água.

Se fosse célula, seria macrófago, ou célula tronco...

Mas queria ser neurônio;

Mas ainda se fosse um lugar..

Seria no coração de alguém.

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Madadayo (1993)

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Madadayo (1993)

まあだだよ Madadayo (1993) directed by Akira Kurosawa

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Tatsuo Matsumura in Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa, 1993) Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyoko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao, Takeshi Kusaka, Asei Kobayashi, Mitsuru Hirata, Takao Zushi, Nobuto Okamoto. Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Ishiro Honda. Cinematography: Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda. Art direction: Yoshiro Muraki. Film editing: Akira Kurosawa, Ishiro Honda. Music: Shinichiro Ikebe.  Akira Kurosawa's Madadayo isn't quite the autumnal masterpiece we want a great director's final film to be, but it has a suitably valedictory tone. It's a portrait of a kind of Japanese Mr. Chips, a teacher so beloved that his students reunite every year to celebrate his birthday with lots of singing and drinking. The film is based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, an actual professor of German at Hosei University in Tokyo. We never really see what made Uchida (Tatsuo Matsumura) so beloved by his students: The film opens with his retirement from teaching so he can devote more time to writing, but we can infer from the genial, eccentrically bookish manner that peeps through his professorial sternness that he has always been a favorite of his students, often drinking with them after hours. The narrative (such as it is -- Kurosawa's screenplay, based on the real Uchida's essays, has no real plot or dramatic arc) picks up on his birthday in 1943, when his former students help him and his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) move into a new house. When the house is destroyed by fire from the American bombing, they move into a tiny shed that was an outbuilding on a wealthy man's estate and live there until after the war, when his students build a new house for him. We see him celebrate his 60th birthday with his students at a banquet that grows so noisy some GIs from the occupying forces arrive in a Jeep to check it out but leave with smiles on their faces. He's so beloved that when a rich man proposes to build a three-story house across the street from him, thereby casting Uchida's house and garden in shadow, the man selling the land reneges on the deal and then sells it to a group of the ex-students. The greatest crisis in his life is not the war but the loss of a beloved cat, who wanders off one day, causing him so much grief that his wife calls in the students to help find it. Eventually, a new cat takes up with Uchida and life goes on. At the film's end, Uchida collapses from a heart arrhythmia at the banquet celebrating his 77th birthday, but even then he calls out the phrase "Mada dayo!" ("Not yet!"), which has become his ritual defiance of death at his birthday celebrations. Matsumura's performance sustains the film, which at 2 hours and 14 minutes is overlong and more a film for Kurosawa completists than for general audiences. The birthday celebrations become wearyingly exuberant, and the search for the lost cat seems to go on forever, but the film is lightened by Kurosawa's sense of humor and his affection for the characters. It also touches on the changes in Japanese society over the years: The classroom scene at the beginning has a militaristic formality, and the drinking bouts of the early birthday celebrations are all-male affairs. But by the end, not only has Uchida's ever-dutiful wife joined in the celebration, but his students' wives, children, and grandchildren are present, too.

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Favorite films watched in April 2021:

Fists in the Pocket (1965), dir. Marco Bellocchio

Daddy Nostalgia (1990), dir. Bertrand Tavernier

Mephisto (1981), dir István Szabó

Une semaine de vacances (1980), dir. Bertrand Tavernier

Man of Marble (1977), dir. Andrzej Wajda

Man of Iron (1981), dir. Andrzej Wajda

A Girl Missing (2019), dir. Koji Fukada

Colonel Redl (1985), dir. István Szabó

Chop Shop (2007), dir. Ramin Bahrani

Madadayo (1993), dir. Akira Kurosawa

The Father (2020), dir. Florian Zeller

Winter Sleep (2014), dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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Happy Heavenly Birthday to Academy Award Nominated, BAFTA Winning filmmaker Akira Kurosawa! ^__^

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Seen (again) in 2021:

Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa), 1993

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Madadayo | Akira Kurosawa | 1993

Tatsuo Matsumura, Akira Terao, George Tokoro, Asei Kobayashi, Hisashi Igawa, et al.

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Weekly Wrap Up

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto / Madadayo / Gate of Hell / Lastfm

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Madadayo, Akira Kurosawa

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Akira Kurosawa - Dessins

Paris Musées,  Paris 2008,  120 pages avec 87 illustrations couleurs

ISBN 978-2-7596-0055-7

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Exposition, Petit Palais, Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris, 16 octobre 2008-11 janvier 2009

Le Catalogue de l’exposition du Petit Palais, présente une sélection de dessins de ce cinéaste qui fut également un dessinateur d’un talent exceptionnel. Beaucoup de ses dessins préparatoires à ses films ( Kagemusha, Ran, Rêves, Madadayo et Umi wa miteita) ont été conservés. Près de 97 dessins sont révélés au public qui pourra les apprécier pour leur extraordinaire charge émotionnelle propre, indépendamment de toute référence aux films réalisés

Ces dessins ne peuvent se résumer à un travail préparatoire à la réalisation de ses films. Conçus comme des oeuvres autonomes, ils sont accessibles à tous y compris à ceux qui n'auraient pas la chance d'avoir vu ses films. Synthèse originale des cultures orientales et occidentales, par leur force expressionniste, ces dessins reflètent la personnalité de Kurosawa, son enracinement dans le patrimoine japonais comme son admiration pour l'art de Van Gogh, Cézanne, Chagall ou Rouault et la lecture de Shakespeare, Dostoïevski ou Tolstoï. Descendant de samouraïs, Kurosawa est né dans le Japon de l'ère Meiji. C'est indéniablement cette atmosphère particulière, son environnement qui le poussent très tôt à assouvir sa soif pour l'art occidental. Les dessins ici rassemblés contiennent la même charge émotionnelle que les films de l'artiste. Le choix savant des coloris, mettant l'accent sur les psychologies ou dramatisant certaines scènes, est sans doute le secret de l'admiration qu'il a réussi à susciter.

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A Journey through the Entire Kurosawa Filmography [from My Current Approximation of Least to Most Favorite] 🎥 Part II: Pretty Good for its Faults 🎞️ 26. No Regrets for our Youth [1946] His 5th film, and his first released post-war film, while it's another that definitely has some strong performances, and emotionally effective moments, as well as rare (for Kurosawa) primary female lead, it unfortunately plods along a bit more inconsistently & slowly than I'd prefer. 25. Madadayo [1993] Kurosawa's last film (& as I hadn't seen it until a little while ago, it also completed me seeing all his films), it is touching, and well shot, but unfortunately suffers from pacing some, and also from the disappointing quality of the DVD. 24. One Wonderful Sunday [1947] Jumping back now to his 6th film, this films shows the influence of Frank Capri (among others), and it quaint and enjoyable enough, but would be more enjoyable (and more Capra-esque) if the male lead wasn't quite so damn mopey and pessimistic (or at least let frustratingly so manner). 23. The Idiot [1951] An adaption of Dostoevsky's novel, aside from issues stemming from the period's understanding mental health issues (from both novel's time, 1869, as well as the time of the movie's making), the primary issue with this is that it's an incomplete film. It was by accounts a faithful adaption of the novel (other than physical setting) in its original 265 minute length, but it was then cut down 100 minutes by the studio (now considered lost), and the result is variously unclear and inconsistent in places. But it also has clear strengths, and hints at what it truly could've/should've been. 🎬 Despite the faults, things continue to improve as we move along. Also a side note on the DVDs in the list- it appears (not terribly surprisingly) that the ones not put out by Criterion tend to be noticeably worse quality. • • • #kurosawa #akirakurosawa #KurosawaFilmography #kurosawathon #all30films #iLoveMovies #dvd ? #blurays #dvds #bluray #kurosawafilms #kurosawamovies #noregretsforouryouth #1946 #madadayo #1993 #onewonderfulsunday #1947 #theidiot #1951 #toshiromifune #takashishimura #setsukohara (at Jersey City, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLBKpgEjxBF/?igshid=nqdcrcrlihv