Talk:Akira Kurosawa

Why is there no mention of Chusingun, which was also influential to George Lucas? It bothers me that no one has taken the time to pay homage to this director by even posting a non-objective review. Then again, I should probably get to the library and check out the movie myself.

RE: mistake

The Author of this article credits Stray Dog as Kurosawa's first collaboration with Toshiro Mifune, when it is in fact Kurosawa's breakthrough film, Drunken Angel which first starred the then unknown Mifune in a Kurosawa film. Drunken Angel was released in April of 1948 while Stray Dog was released in October of 1949. By this point Kurosawa had already collaborated with mifune a second time in The Quiet Duel. I believe it is important to recognize the significance of Drunken angel, It is a spectacular film that is tremendously important to Japanese cinema and it is also responsible for launching Mifune's career as a actor and also introducing Kurosawa as a truly talented and skilled director. Donald Ritchie notes the importance of this film in his book, The Films of Akira Kurosawa. "Japanese critics have agreed that this picture is to Japanese cinema as Paisa or Bicycle Thieves is to Italian, that it perfectly epitomizes a period, its hopes, its fears: that it marks the major 'breakthrough' of a major directorial talent who has finally 'realized' himself."(Ritchie, 47) I will try to formalize this correction within the actual article, but am new to Wikipedia, so if anyone reads this and notices that the error was left uncorrected than please assume I was unable to do so and please correct it if you are able.

• Any quoted material is taken from The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Ritchie.

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Original versus English Titles

I realise that this is the English page but I humbly believe that the original movie titles should be used. There should still be redirects from the international titles. Microsnot 01:48, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Since this is the English edition, I think the English titles should be the main titles used (if only so that people can find the films in video stores), but I think you're right that if the original title is actually different (e.g. Throne of Blood was originally Cobweb Castle in Japanese) there should defenitely be a note about that somewhere, maybe in brackets after the English title. This should be fairly easy to do. The Singing Badger 12:11, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Definately not trolling but from looking at imdb.com, I would like to know why "Madadayo" instead of "Not yet", "Yojimbo" instead of "Bodyguard The", "Ikiru" instead of "To live", etc. Surely the international titles should be used instead of whatever it's released as on video in North American. It just seems a little inconsistent. Microsnot 12:56, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Yes, but Wikipedia, unlike the IMDB, is a multi-language encyclopedia. The IMDB has only one entry for a film, so they have to give each film its original title. But Wikipedia (in an ideal world at least) has different entries for each film in every language. If a user speaks Japanese and wants to know the original titles, they can just go to the Japanese Wikipedia article on Kurosawa. And if a user doesn't speak Japanese, the original titles are just pretty sounds and don't mean anything. That's my justification, anyway! The Singing Badger 20:58, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Reply to: The Singing Badger 20:58, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC) Which is what I'm saying. Madadayo, Yojimbo, Ikiru and a couple of others are the "Japanese titles" rather than literally translated/international/subtitled titles. Microsnot 01:16, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Isn't that the opposite of what I'm saying?! This could go round in circles... but if you want to change the titles, I won't revert it, but I do think the English titles should be made VERY clear, via redirects and so forth. This is supposed to be a site for English speakers. The Singing Badger 01:27, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

These issues are bigger than one director. They apply to all directors, authors etc. So, I suggest debating at Wikipedia:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles. Fg2 02:12, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)

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