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Howard Orr
30Dec11
A beautifully composed film, with thoughtful staging in depth and excellent characterisation. The bleakness of its vision is significantly at odds with the lighter tone of the -also excellent- 1936 Renoir version. Worth getting both films in the Criterion DVD set.
Mugino
23Nov11
I don't know how to rate Kurosawa films any more: it's simply not possible for them to be passable or below average (a 3-star or lower on my scale) but there are so many gradations of vision, skill and talent between the 4-star and 5-star. This is one of my least favorite selections from his filmography but there's a cynical wisdom driving it, conveyed through words as sharp as a tack.
Francisco R.
14May11
There is a masterstroke to the movie in the way the characters are portrayed, where each one of them might represent a state of mind and the cast as a whole convey the primary spectrum of human emotions, completing the metaphor of the film as the tribulations of a single human mind, as a multidimensional ying-yang instead of several individual problems unrelated to one another. The lower depths of our own existence.
Zachary Curl
26Dec10
excellent film, excellent ending, though i don't find myself wanting to watch it very often. it's one of Kurosawa's movies that actually feels long to me.
Franklinton Underground Cinema
22May10
I have a similar love for this film, as I have for Hitchcock's "Rope". There is just so much to chew on and digest. Great writing and dialogue. Great adaptation.
