Akira Kurosawa Profile – Episode #45 (December 8th, 2015)

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🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Popcorn Talk proudly presents Profiles with Malone and Mantz! In this vodcast series hosts Alicia Malone and Scott "Movie" Mantz break down and focus on some of the most prolific Hollywood directors, writers and actors in the entertainment industry - past & present. Comment and Rate us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/profiles/id908850713?mt=2 Today it's all about Akira Kurosawa! Akira Kurosawa (Japanese: 黒澤明 Hepburn: Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II, with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga). After the war, the critically Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Popcorn Talk Network for the online broadcast network that features movie discussion, news, and interviews, press one.
0:09.3	Popcorn Talk, we talk movies.
0:26.7	From the Popcorn Talk Network, the Ophys. from the popcorn talk network the online broadcast network for movie talk alicia malone with scott moviemance and the schmows know this is profiles in-depth
0:31.8	spotlights on the greatest filmmakers and artists in motion picture history. Hello, profilers.
0:39.6	Boy, have we got a great show today.
0:43.8	We are profiling, not just one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, but a filmmaker,
0:49.5	a director, who is absolutely the greatest director who ever lived.
0:55.4	Akira Kurosawa, and when we get to the end of the show,
0:59.0	you're going to see why that is a bold statement that is absolutely true
1:02.4	because I've got to tell you, I learned more doing this episode of profiles
1:07.2	than I did on every other, all 44 previous episodes of profiles combined.
1:12.5	That's right. I mean, we want you guys to think of this as your introduction to Akira Kurosawa.
1:17.3	So don't worry if you haven't seen any of his movies. This is just going to let you know why each of
1:22.4	his films that we've chosen is a classic, why they're so important, and why he was so important. I mean, it's really
1:28.7	hard to emphasize just how hugely influential a director he was. I mean, his career
1:35.0	spanned from the Second World War right up to the early 90s. He delivered samurai epics,
1:40.1	as well as intimate dramas. And when you really look at the shot composition
1:44.3	of every single one of his films,
1:46.5	the camera techniques he pioneered.
1:48.5	That's the thing.
1:49.7	When you watch these movies, you might think,
1:51.6	oh, yeah, I've seen that before,
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