Excellent post, Robbo, although you've given me the sniffles just thinking about the "ships in the night" syndrome that you and Lisa (and in parallel Krista and I) have. Careers blow dead marsupials, n'est pas? I agree with Krista's recommendation with the scheduled weekly date as well. The best date in the twenty to thirty dollar range that you'll have all week and an absolute necessity to reconnect.
Re: Akira Kurosawa - all of the afore mentioned picks are right on the money. Kagemusha is without a doubt his best film and should be watched slack jawed. Yojimbo is my favourite (anything with Toshiro Mifune is awesome) as well; you should see it back to back with A Fist Full of Dollars to see how it inspired (or rather created) the spaghetti western. Ran is cinematically beautiful, although it can drag a bit, but the enormous battle scenes are arguably Kurosawa's best and the "you gonna git yours beyatch" death scene of the baddie is blood-spray-a-riffic.
Nerdy Kurosawa fact #115: George Lucas got the inspiration for Star Wars from The Hidden Fortress, specifically character personalities for C-3PO, R2-D2 and Princess Leia from the two bumbling servants and Princess Yukihime.
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Re: Akira Kurosawa - all of the afore mentioned picks are right on the money. Kagemusha is without a doubt his best film and should be watched slack jawed. Yojimbo is my favourite (anything with Toshiro Mifune is awesome) as well; you should see it back to back with A Fist Full of Dollars to see how it inspired (or rather created) the spaghetti western. Ran is cinematically beautiful, although it can drag a bit, but the enormous battle scenes are arguably Kurosawa's best and the "you gonna git yours beyatch" death scene of the baddie is blood-spray-a-riffic.
Nerdy Kurosawa fact #115: George Lucas got the inspiration for Star Wars from The Hidden Fortress, specifically character personalities for C-3PO, R2-D2 and Princess Leia from the two bumbling servants and Princess Yukihime.