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A Journey through the Entire Kurosawa Filmography [from My Current Approximation of Least to Most Favorite] 🎥 Part IV: They're All Great from Here 🎞️ 17. Dreams [1990] Kurosawa's 3rd to last film was made with help from George Lucas & Steven Spielberg, and includes an appearance by Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh. It is an odd but visually stunning collection of vignettes based on his own dreams. I consider it both his last truly great film, but also the least of his greatest films (yes, I consider 17 of his 30 films his greatest). 16. Drunken Angel [1948] Going from his last great to his first great, Drunken Angel represents a few important firsts for Kurosawa. It was his first truly stand out film (& first he could achieve something close to what he wanted), the first of 16 films with actor Toshiro Mifune, and also the first of his films considered by some as Japanese Noir. (Also apparently the first film in general to depict post war yakuza.) 15. The Bad Sleep Well [1960] Speaking of, this is the 3rd of his films sometimes classified as noir. This one is also one of three adapted from Shakespeare. Though, admittedly, this is by far the loosest of those adaptions, and the least of the 3 films, but it is still very well--I mean, good. 😏 (Oh, and Hamlet, in case you were wondering.) 14. Stray Dog [1949] The 2nd of Kurosawa's 4 noir experiments, and the closest to a straight forward noir as we think about them, Stray Dog is a great film that also is something of a precursor to the police procedural genre. (Apparently some also think of it as a precursor to the buddy cop genre, though that one feels like a bit more of a stretch to me...) 🎬 Yup. Every film from here on is great in some or many ways. Also, I am still continuing to update the order as I go along. • • • #kurosawa #akirakurosawa #KurosawaFilmography #kurosawathon #all30films #iLoveMovies #dvd ? #blurays #dvds #bluray #kurosawafilms #kurosawamovies #dreams (#dreams1990 #akirakurosawasdreams #georgelucas #stevenspielberg #martinscorsese ) #1990 #drunkenangel #1948 #thebadsleepwell #1960 #straydog (#straydog1949 #akirakurosawasstraydog) #1949 #toshiromifune #takashishimura (at Jersey City, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLGclw9D7Hu/?igshid=j9mdp7oxc677