Bill Hader on Akira Kurosawa

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  • @bchearne
    @bchearne 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +475

    Kurosawa is like Shakespeare, his work is both high-art and thoroughly entertaining

    • @raymondjurie9047
      @raymondjurie9047 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Blood Throne and Ran would suggest you may br right.

    • @gew393
      @gew393 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Shakespeare isn’t high art

    • @emceeunderdogrising
      @emceeunderdogrising 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was just going to say that.@@raymondjurie9047

    • @raymondjurie9047
      @raymondjurie9047 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@gew393 What are the reasons you have for this opinion, if you would be good enough to elaborate?

    • @swzzlestik5426
      @swzzlestik5426 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Shakespeare is High & Low art. Ask Kurosawa...@@raymondjurie9047

  • @JNathanielBerke
    @JNathanielBerke ปีที่แล้ว +334

    So cool Bill mentioned "Stray Dog" - one of the first Kurosawa films I saw. Now I own every film and every book about The Master.

    • @aidanmca4177
      @aidanmca4177 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah I like how he highlighted the chase too, that last part of the movie really kicked it up in his filmography for me, one of the best sequences he did

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Kurosawas auto bio is a great read..Paperback. ebay.

    • @Lazrael32
      @Lazrael32 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was happy he even mentioned high and low. While it's one of his more known movies it's often ignored (along with stray dog) in favor of his samurai movies. I also enjoyed the bad sleep well.

    • @galacticwarlock2271
      @galacticwarlock2271 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I am reliving my high school Kurosawa obsession.

    • @Axolotl_Mischief
      @Axolotl_Mischief 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Roshomon was my first.
      Was amazing. Immediately bought the CC Yojimbo & Sanjuro blurays. Loved them both.

  • @afernandezaf55af
    @afernandezaf55af 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Ikiru is one of my favorite Kurosawa films. It is so emotional and layered. Bill Hader's insight is so spot on with it. Every time I watch it, I'm moved to tears.
    Ran might be my favorite, but it is so impossible to pick just one. Everything about Ran is so large and dominating.
    Kurosawa was the master and every modern filmmaker is his student

  • @VCT3333
    @VCT3333 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Ran, Rashomon, Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Throne of Blood... What a great filmmaker.

  • @azulsimmons1040
    @azulsimmons1040 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Ikiru is an awesome movie. I had no idea what to expect when I first viewed it. At the end I was in awe Kurosawa took this very small story and turned it into something epic. A human being wanting some sense of purpose and to accomplish something that made himself feel like he made a difference before he passed.

    • @MrPepeDBZ
      @MrPepeDBZ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is what I consider the greatest Kurosawa movie ever, I know many say 7 samurai or Yojimbo (He'll, they're some of the best cinema ever) but for me, that's THE movie

  • @ShinGallon
    @ShinGallon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    Yojimbo is not only my favorite Kurosawa film, it's my favorite film, period. My favorite Mifune performance as well. One thing I love in it is how it's got these incredibly violent scenes but the violence isn't glamorized in any way. The way Kurosawa shot them it's almost like a documentary, as if he were filming actual samurai killing each other. Masterful, utterly masterful.

    • @protoman1214
      @protoman1214 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yojimbo legitimately blew my fucking mind dude. I refused to believe it was as old as it was.
      He was so ahead of his time.

    • @yanac13
      @yanac13 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My favorite thing about this movie is how he uses the limitations of the camera as feature by making the shots reinforce the uneasiness of the town and the job was causing on the mc. Makes it feel a bit like there is someone stalking him from our point of view sometimes. But maybe i'm reading too much into it lol

    • @CollectedWorx
      @CollectedWorx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You have excellent taste, sir 🙌🏼

    • @samspencer582
      @samspencer582 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yojimbo is a masterpiece and everything is perfect in this movie. This is my second favorite movie after Seven Samurai. I love all the Kurosawa movies and he is the best director i the movie history.

    • @poppers7317
      @poppers7317 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's also a pretty funny and entertaining movie.

  • @CJStew06
    @CJStew06 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Just want to say I appreciate you cutting up these videos-I could listen to Bill Hader talk about his favorite movies all day.

  • @Bluechief6
    @Bluechief6 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    Rashomon and Hidden Fortress are a must watch. Hidden Fortress being the actual inspiration for Star Wars. Rashomon was the first movie where viewers had to think whether each character's retelling of a mutual story was a lie for their own benefit. It created a whole genre.

    • @Sandwhaler
      @Sandwhaler 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      That's not how I remember it!

    • @emceeunderdogrising
      @emceeunderdogrising 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I actually like Ran more. That's based on Shakespeare.

    • @matthiasblum6555
      @matthiasblum6555 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I would say for Rashomon lying is a part of it. But its more how perception, individual perspective, even the life every one of those characters had till this moment, which has a big impact how they see the same deed later on. And each of their interpretations get then into the memory of that moment. Its a genius piece of art.

    • @Vladimirwlr1234
      @Vladimirwlr1234 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      If you can, I recommend reading "In a grove" (Yabu no naka), Akutagawa's short story on which Rashomon is based. It's interesting how differently the same effect is achieved in literature. Incidentally, Akutagawa also has an excellent short story called Rashomon, but that's a whole different thing.

    • @user-uo8mx3cv5k
      @user-uo8mx3cv5k 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Sandwhalernice

  • @NickOwens
    @NickOwens 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love that Yojimbo joke in Barry.

  • @fuiers
    @fuiers ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Kagemusha, High & Low and The Bad Sleep Well are my favorite Kurosawa films. I could see that Bong Joong-Ho have taken so much influence on Kurosawa. Memories of Murder and Parasite have so much in common with High & Low

    • @dreamquesttv
      @dreamquesttv ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Interestingly, High and Low was based on an American crime novel called "King's Ransom" by Evan Hunter (one of his "Ed McBain 87th Precinct" books).

  • @billybussey
    @billybussey ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I must watch Ikiru and Stray Dog right now.

    • @Luxington1
      @Luxington1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Check out High and Low as well, it's a bit better than Stray Dog, but not Ikiru. And then there's his Samurai movies...

    • @n0tthemessiah
      @n0tthemessiah 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ikiru is on a different level than just about any movie I've seen. It's amazing how well it's aged, it could go toe-to-toe with anything coming out today.

    • @rloomis3
      @rloomis3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@n0tthemessiah Roger Ebert said it's one of the few films that could actually change the way you live your life.

  • @christopherpaul7588
    @christopherpaul7588 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    High and Low is my personal favorite. But they are all so amazing. I think it's about time to rewatch his movies.

    • @Psyfi85
      @Psyfi85 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      High and Low, Rashomon, SS for me. But I agree, they’re all spectacular.

  • @morpheusdorpheusorpheus
    @morpheusdorpheusorpheus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Sanjuro (sequel to Yojimbo), Ikiru, Red Beard, Dersu Uzala (inspiration for Yoda) and The Quiet Duel are my favorite Kurosawa movies but if you're a fan of cinema at all it's an entire film school to just watch everything from Drunken Angel (1948) to Ran (1985). Everything you could ever learn about cinematography, contrast, composition, blocking, efficient story structure, creative editing and acting from the theatrical to the subtle can be learned pretty comprehensively by doing so, not to mention seeing the influence it had on some of your favorite directors

  • @pachucodreams
    @pachucodreams 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I was grateful I had the chance to see Ikiru and a few other films at the stanford theater during a Kurosawa retrospective in 2020 3 times and by the 3rd I was weeping uncontrollably. I didn't think the film affected me that much but something about the 3rd time and its unbearable humanity hit hard at that time. Never had an experience like that since.

  • @samburnscomposer
    @samburnscomposer ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Kurosawa is the master

  • @yokoreia
    @yokoreia 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My favorite film Seven Samurai.
    My favorite movie The Empire Strikes Back.
    I’m grateful to Kurosawa, Ozu and other Japanese masters for inspiring films.

  • @HenryMulligan
    @HenryMulligan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    My favorite element of Stray Dog is the heatwave used as a means for each actor to display his/her personality in a very efficient and tangible manner. And the use of the song Bengawan Solo. Oh yea and everything else about the movie.

    • @pachucodreams
      @pachucodreams 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I love how each character in a Kurosawa movie has their own prominent personality expressed through their body language. A small thing but adds immense world building and character depth.

  • @emceeunderdogrising
    @emceeunderdogrising 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    He's my favorite director. Every shot he places is always in the perfect spot. In every movie he ever made. It's so tough to say which is my favorite. Seven Samurai was so groundbreaking. But Ran really was the culmination of his experience with historical pieces. The way he wrapped up Shakespeare and made it purely his own was amazing. I highly suggest that film.

  • @lisacolbert5987
    @lisacolbert5987 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Mifune was SO nice to look at.

  • @mshahnazi7636
    @mshahnazi7636 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Kurosawa-San was one of the best ever movie makers of all time.
    Two of his movies that were made later on into westerns, The Magnificent Seven (Seven Samurais) and Fist Full of Dollars (Yojimbo) became legendary.

    • @paynoattentionplease
      @paynoattentionplease 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ikiru was made into "Living" recently with Bill Nighy.

    • @Fergus316
      @Fergus316 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yojimbo*
      I believe the sequel to Yojimbo, Sanjuro, also had an influence on the sequel to A Fistful fo Dollars, A Few Dollars More.

    • @mshahnazi7636
      @mshahnazi7636 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Fergus316 My bad on the Typo and fat finger.
      You are right about the sequel which turned into ‘A Few Dollars more.
      The great acting by the Legendary ‘Mifune Toshiro’ also added greatly to those movies.

  • @psychotech3927
    @psychotech3927 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hader gets Kurosawa. and I love it.

  • @PVTKR
    @PVTKR 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'm such a beginner Kurosawa fan, I'm still trying to take in the greatness of Seven Samurai, Ikiru, High and Low, Yojimbo and Rashomon! Must watch Stray Dog now!

  • @De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch
    @De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Ran, High & Low, Seven Samurai... Only to name a few (imo his best works)
    Just name one director who is capable of achieving this insane quality movie after movie. You actually can't, there is none (sorry Marty).
    He did so much for movies you can't praise him enough.
    Kurosawa was larger than life and the greatest film director of all time. Even the best directors who are still alive acknowledge this. There's no room for discussion.

    • @marknewbold2583
      @marknewbold2583 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fassbinder

    • @greylithwolf
      @greylithwolf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No matter what you do, what you've seen, heard, or experienced, there's always a Japanese guy out there who did it better.

    • @De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch
      @De_liebste_un_beste_Mensch 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kinda corny statement but I like that idea.

    • @blakecscott5525
      @blakecscott5525 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think Kurosawa is among the greats too... but just off the top of my head: Orson Welles, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alfred Hitchcock, and... arguably Quentin Tarantino. Every movie by all of them was extremely high artistic and entertainment quality.

  • @CraigHocker
    @CraigHocker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ikiru is one of my all time favorite movies, a fantastic movie.

  • @forgetfulstranger
    @forgetfulstranger 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The core of the artistry of Kurosawa is not the beautiful shots and the movement of the scenes and the editing, its the humanity of the stories.

  • @RyanPerrella
    @RyanPerrella 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seriously impressive mind on Bill Hader, thank you for sharing, i have some Kurosawa pictures i can’t wait to see now.

  • @andyg1735
    @andyg1735 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Bill is such a cinema expert. Not what I'd expect from someone I first saw on SNL.

    • @raul_jocson_
      @raul_jocson_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, Hader's great. Everyone of of his takes one movies is spot on.

    • @mannya.h.967
      @mannya.h.967 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I would imagine any and all of those seasoned improv and comedy types to be total cinephiles

    • @andyg1735
      @andyg1735 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah you're right you don't get good without studying the great@@mannya.h.967

    • @LordMarlle
      @LordMarlle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mannya.h.967 especially if they're writers

  • @karllong
    @karllong 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Ikiru is probably my fav of his films also. Couple of underrated ones are Red Beard and Dersu Uzula. Bill Hader seems like such a nice guy.

    • @Sensorium19
      @Sensorium19 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I had forgotten Dersu Uzala was even a Kurosawa film. It's a favorite for me because of the subject matter. I always had an attraction he Russian far East. I got the book, Dersu the Trapper, after seeing the film. It's also worthwhile as a view of life in a very interesting place and time, though requires a tolerance for describing the birds encountered along the way.

    • @karllong
      @karllong 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Sensorium19 Yes, I really enjoyed the environment and the time period, and the character of Dersu was very compelling. I will be looking out for this book.

  • @williamgregory1848
    @williamgregory1848 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Bill Hader and Patton Oswalt need to start a movie podcast where they just talk about movies nonstop. They’d probably be the next Siskel & Ebert.

    • @Bigredwillol
      @Bigredwillol 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Patton Oswald?! Ew dude

    • @AmyThomasson-g1f
      @AmyThomasson-g1f 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have you watched the clip of Patton talking about Ikiru? He’s who made me want to watch it, Oswalt knows everything about film, just like Hader.

  • @davidsobel3303
    @davidsobel3303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Once I saw Seven Samurai as a teenager I was hooked! I've seen all Kurasawa's films. I wanted to be Toshiro Mifune, he was so effin' cool!

    • @BrixtonTone
      @BrixtonTone 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agreed ! for me he was the original "Clint Eastwood" 😁

    • @RM-eg1ed
      @RM-eg1ed 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s my favourite Kurosawa film. Up to that point I hadn’t seen anything like it. I was hooked as well. He’s definitely in the pantheon of filmmakers.

  • @markwang77
    @markwang77 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i always end up crying at the end of Ikiru.... 🥲

  • @Njbear7453
    @Njbear7453 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Throne of Blood is my personal favorite, also- Yojimbo, and High and Low rock.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He’ll yeah, Throne of Blood is my fave too.

    • @Njbear7453
      @Njbear7453 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Vingul that ending !!!

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Njbear7453 iconic m8.

    • @humanafterallTF2
      @humanafterallTF2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Throne of blood is so cool with the supernatural folk lore ghost theme. Kurosawa and japanese directors seem to have many ghost story movies, i have not seen many yet myself

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@humanafterallTF2 You might enjoy «Kuroneko» and «Onibaba» in that case.

  • @BigSirZebras
    @BigSirZebras 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:30 the line (answer to if Yojimbo was his only film) was "God no! He was highly prolific". That was one of my favorite lines in all of Barry.

  • @ipuya
    @ipuya 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of my favorites is Sanjuro. Its not an epic like some of Kurosawa's other films but it has a bit of everything. Action, comedy, wisdom, great story and great acting. I watch it ever 4 or 5 years

  • @robertlehnert4148
    @robertlehnert4148 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hader and I share the same favorite Kurosawa fil, Ikiru. Wow.

  • @jamestk656
    @jamestk656 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I've never seen a Kurosawa film but Hader just made me want to find a copy of Ikiru.

    • @pr0jectSkyneT
      @pr0jectSkyneT 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There's actually a 2022 British remake of Ikiru called "Living" which is also really good. That said, Kurosawa films are fantastic pieces of film history. I haven't seen all of his films but I have seen Seven Samurai, Ran, Kagemusha, and Throne of Blood. You should defo give his filmography a watch as he's one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. Even Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars", the 1st film of the Dollars trilogy, was a copy of Yojimbo.

    • @lyletuck
      @lyletuck 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And he didn't even mention Rashōmon, which is essential Kurosawa and one of the greatest films ever made.

    • @marknewbold2583
      @marknewbold2583 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The greatest director

    • @chrisleebowers
      @chrisleebowers 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Kurosawa is so accomplished that this video only mentions one of his samurai movies ("Yojimbo" and only because it's the one mentioned in the show) despite the fact that he's creditted with essentially inventing the samurai action movie. Imagine discovering someone like Sergio Leone had an entire filmography of deeply moving small-scale human dramas and light comedies as well as all the Spaghetti Westerns.
      Kurosawa's influence on the rest of world cinema is seismic. Speaking of Leone, "The Man with no Name" is directly inspired by the lead character of "Yojimbo." "The Magnificent Seven" is a direct remake of "Seven Samurai" (And the basic outline of the Seven Samurai plot has been re-used by everything from Pixar's "A Bug's Life" to Marvel's first "Avengers" movie.) "The Hidden Fortress" was where George Lucas got Leia, Obi-Wan, The Droids, and Vader from. "Rashomon" was the first movie to show the same sequence of events from different character's points of view. And if you like Shakespeare, check out "Throne of Blood" and "Ran" - his takes on "Macbeth" and "King Lear"

    • @Bluechief6
      @Bluechief6 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@lyletuck Rashomon literally created a whole way of storytelling with false narratives that made viewers question if each character's recounting was a lie

  • @fifthbusiness1678
    @fifthbusiness1678 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hmm … I was a struck by Bill Hader’s take on the film “Ikuru.” Perhaps because it’s one of my favourite Kurosawa films, perhaps because we share much the same viewpoint. But I dunno … he articulated his thoughts much better than I ever have, or could. Respect!

  • @sloaiza81
    @sloaiza81 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love that all of Kurosawa's movies are on Netflix...

  • @196cupcake
    @196cupcake 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I watch to watch movies with Bill Hader.

  • @theodorerooseveltsantlers270
    @theodorerooseveltsantlers270 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Seven Samurai, Rashomon, & Yojimbo are my top 3 by Kurosawa.

    • @ANTIStraussian
      @ANTIStraussian 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Kurosawa grew up watching cowboy movies so he made samurai movies that were copied into cowboy movies.
      A weird twist of fate.

  • @jamesbarringer2737
    @jamesbarringer2737 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I would support requiring every government worker in the US to have to watch Ikiru at least once a year.

  • @doyleeee
    @doyleeee 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All of Kurosawa's works are really awesome. I was really surprised, he is a real genius.

  • @robertknuist9754
    @robertknuist9754 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    High and Low is probably my favorite Kurosawa film

  • @Soundofsilver2007
    @Soundofsilver2007 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Everyone loves #ikiru

  • @dylanmcdermott1110
    @dylanmcdermott1110 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I need to see more of Kurosawa; Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Ran are fantastic!

    • @rloomis3
      @rloomis3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Those are my three favorites! It's hard to "rank" them after that, but the ones I'd recommend first would be (in no particular order) _Yojimbo, High and Low, Throne of Blood, Hidden Fortress, Ikiru._ But there are so many others that are great, too.

    • @dylanmcdermott1110
      @dylanmcdermott1110 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@rloomis3 Thanks. I'm probably the most interested in Kagemusha due to the gorgeous stills I've seen of it, but I'll keep those others in mind as well.

    • @rloomis3
      @rloomis3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dylanmcdermott1110 That's fantastic too. Since you've already seen _Ran_, the spectacle might seem "small" in comparison, but if you take it on its own terms, you won't be disappointed. :)

  • @writeralbertlanier3434
    @writeralbertlanier3434 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im glad Hader mentioned Stray Dog which is one of my favorite Kurosawa films.
    It's a perfect post war Japanese contemporaneous film. The idea of a cop losing his gun would not work as well if filmed in say 1960
    But a couple years or so after the war , it fits beautifully

  • @BobSmith-dk8nw
    @BobSmith-dk8nw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yeah. _Ikiru_ is one of my favorite Kurosawa
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa
    movies.
    Back before the Internet became widely used - my college had a "Kurosawa Film Festival" where they showed one of his movies once a week for the 12 weeks of the semester. I tried to see them all.
    He really was fantastic.
    When _The Magnificent Seven_ came out - I didn't see it so I ended up seeing _The Seven Samurai_ first. When I finally saw _The Magnificent Seven_ I was profoundly disappointed.
    .

  • @julesjma
    @julesjma 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kurosawa made Mifune a superstar. Ikuru is also such a lovely film. One can't go wrong with any Kurosawa film, really.

  • @bridgecross
    @bridgecross 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I just went on a Kurosawa bender. I had to watch Yojimbo three times it was so good.

  • @MangetsuSAMURAI
    @MangetsuSAMURAI 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact: my grandma was a studio actress for Toho back in the day, and she shows up in this movie as the lady who gives the piano player a beer and then storms off when he ignores her for the woman dancing.

    • @rloomis3
      @rloomis3 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Too cool!

  • @J_Braz_
    @J_Braz_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura we're a unlikely perfect duo. They must've been in a dozen movies together. Many of which Kurosawa directed. I watched "Stray Dog" a few months back. Hell, I've about seen em all!

  • @brianmessemer2973
    @brianmessemer2973 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bill, you’re a real one 💯

  • @stoatystoat174
    @stoatystoat174 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When i saw Stray Dog it begins with him leaving the firing range talking to a friend about it. You don't get to see close up of the gun going in his pocket before it goes misssing but you find out he is a cop with a gun. Foreshadowing so a missing gun isn't out of the blue, but without shouting it at you

  • @molochi
    @molochi 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love to listen to Hader do his movie nerd thing. Barry was amazing and I hope he goes on to do something that makes him a Scorsese or a Kurosawa or at least a Tarantino.

    • @penguinista
      @penguinista 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I agree. Seems easily possible. Barry was a big learning experience for Hader, according to interviews I have heard.
      He got stellar results out of the gate. Now people will trust him with bigger projects and his imagination has probably grown.

  • @Thomas-dn8dr
    @Thomas-dn8dr ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "Living" The Bill Nighy remake of Ikiru is actually very good. It's faithful and respectful to the original. And Bill Nighy is always awesome :)

    • @danwroy
      @danwroy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What's his problem

    • @pr0jectSkyneT
      @pr0jectSkyneT 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I saw it last year and I concur. I hadn't realized coming in that it was a Kurosawa remake till I saw the intro credits.

  • @bentramer682
    @bentramer682 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like how he's actually talking to someone who knows what he's talking about

  • @Springy26
    @Springy26 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If you're looking for new voices to feature, please look up the author David Foster Wallace's interview with Charlie Rose in which he discussed how David Lynch and Blue Velvet breathed new life into the development of 1990s avant garde art and letters!

  • @patrickmcgunn145
    @patrickmcgunn145 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cuts' through all the B.S.
    then ...lesson learned
    so Good!

  • @spendymcspendy
    @spendymcspendy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yojimbo and Ran are my favorite Kurosawa films!

  • @bigmikem1578
    @bigmikem1578 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had every Kurosawa film in VHS.

  • @TheOtherKine
    @TheOtherKine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Hidden Fortress?
    DREAMS is awesome too

    • @PS1Fan1991
      @PS1Fan1991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Another Dreams fan! That is the film that made me a Kurosawa fan!

    • @TheOtherKine
      @TheOtherKine 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@PS1Fan1991 Dreams is awesome. The Van Gogh sequence with Martin Scorsese was a genius stroke

  • @cynthiamason4069
    @cynthiamason4069 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I could listen to Bill for hours...what a brain🍎

  • @winniethepeg
    @winniethepeg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The first Kurosawa film I ever saw was Ran. I was a teenager. In university I took a film study course (because I wanted to watch movies for a credit) and did a review of the film “A Fistful of Dollars”, which I found out, was a remake of “Yojimbo”.
    One interesting side note: I reviewed the movie “My Darling Clementine” and surprised my professor by pointing out that the movie poster for My Darling Clementine did not have the actress portraying Clementine on it. I think I got a few points for that discovery lol.

    • @EmanAugust
      @EmanAugust 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I loved My Darling Clementine! great picture

  • @piotrjeske4599
    @piotrjeske4599 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Besides Richard the Third, for the first time l saw most Shakespeare works in Kurosawa version.

  • @j-rocd9507
    @j-rocd9507 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yojimbo is also the name of a tactical knife design by Michael janitch

  • @YOutsider
    @YOutsider 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    no mistake that Hader scored with 'Barry.' he's truly a student of excellent filmmakers.

  • @Thulgore
    @Thulgore 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to see Bill Hader and Tarantino just talk movies for 4+ hours. There are a few other people I would love in that conversation too.

  • @josephchristopherdavissr.6804
    @josephchristopherdavissr.6804 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Little known fact I have a Toshiro Mifune tattoo on my back. Grew up watching Samurai Westerns and Cheesy Kung Fu flicks

  • @wasteland01
    @wasteland01 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    IKIRU is my favorite film.

  • @bfkc111
    @bfkc111 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He liked food... in his mouth... to eat... also good or interesting weather. And being able to do what he wants.

  • @marcsullivan7987
    @marcsullivan7987 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always saw some Kierkegaard themes in Ikiru

  • @randolphpinkle4482
    @randolphpinkle4482 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder if Kurosawa borrowed the idea of Pottersville from Capra's It's a Wonderful Life for Ikiru. What would have happened if Jimmy Stewart's character had never existed and how he had influenced his community. I'll have to watch Ikiru again.

  • @Kinuhbud
    @Kinuhbud 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    his last movie(dreams IIRC), that was all short stories, was really fucking good...

  • @gaushag3084
    @gaushag3084 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    that "cinepolice" scene in barry is hilarious as hell. could anyone suggest me a tv show/movie like barry, bcs i couldnt find any

    • @mr.doctorcaptain1124
      @mr.doctorcaptain1124 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Barry is amazing. If you haven’t seen it, don’t watch clips. Watch the entire show. It is AMAZING

    • @katsushiro2501
      @katsushiro2501 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Mr. Inbetween" is the closest to Barry that i can think of
      An Australian show, i think it's only 3 seasons
      The protagonist is also a hitman, but a father too, and he's trying to juggle those 2 lives
      But he's nothing like Barry
      He's 100% sure that what he does is justified ... "they had it coming" ...

    • @FirstnameLastname-kn5sw
      @FirstnameLastname-kn5sw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Better Call Saul
      Killing Eve
      Fargo (the TV show)

    • @SM-xt5gl
      @SM-xt5gl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mr. Inbetween is brilliant . The scenes with his brother are heart felt .

    • @TheLoveTruffle
      @TheLoveTruffle 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Better Call Saul is the only thing that comes close for me.@@mr.doctorcaptain1124

  • @johngrayatkinson1214
    @johngrayatkinson1214 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Scorsese uses alot of structure, plot, ambience and " shots" from this film in THE DEPARTED
    I need to watch more Kurisawa again

  • @GarrettNicolai-vc4qk
    @GarrettNicolai-vc4qk 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've always seen "Ikiru" as a Japanese version of "A Cristmas Carol", except instead of being visited by ghosts, Scrooge is visited by terminal Cancer.

  • @scottjackson8771
    @scottjackson8771 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Runaway train was a really good movie

  • @aelfredrex8354
    @aelfredrex8354 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you can find a copy, check out his "Dersu Uzala", the Russian film.

  • @thefceUSMC
    @thefceUSMC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Razor!!

  • @stockicide
    @stockicide 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Real recognize real.

  • @cirofesta1027
    @cirofesta1027 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    where was this skit? SNL? I need to know where and when so I can see it!

  • @ovidiusnaso602
    @ovidiusnaso602 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Does anyone know the source of the info Hader mentions about Kurosawa's writer/friend who suggested the changes to Stray Dogs and Ikuru scripts? Is it from an interview, a book, etc?

  • @shaggybreeks
    @shaggybreeks 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Story about Kurosawa, thumbnail shows Mifune. Understandable, but not fair.

  • @AarnavDasari
    @AarnavDasari 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when he says - russian literature. what books/stories is he referring to?

  • @mc76
    @mc76 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Dodes'ka-den" is the single weirdest movie I have ever seen. But it's a good kind of weird.

  • @mikeknowles5848
    @mikeknowles5848 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ikiru and Taxi Driver are the most Dostoyevskian films ever made.

  • @scottjackson8771
    @scottjackson8771 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That’s a picture of tashiro mifune, not kirusawa

  • @Kinuhbud
    @Kinuhbud 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i'm only 32 seconds in and laughing so good

  • @OgamiItto70
    @OgamiItto70 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whatever happened to sweating the story and the script before ever walking onto a soundstage or mounting a camera to a tripod? These days it's, "Somehow Palpatine returned."

  • @hossesarse
    @hossesarse 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Jesus. This is the same guy who played one of the stoner cops in the McLovin movie? This is like watching a dog play the piano.

  • @AverageDrafter
    @AverageDrafter 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If your answer to who the greatest director of all time is doesn't start with a K, its the wrong answer.

  • @sclogse1
    @sclogse1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In the scenes from Stray Dog of the women sweating in the heat , it reminds me of an early John Ford film of a ship tied offshore while the island women are waiting for these guys to disembark. The Long Voyage Home. Very moody incredibly romantic, very theatrical. It's the best scene in the film, with no talking. It's in the first 3 minutes of this sampling of the film. th-cam.com/video/kkFHoS7EdVk/w-d-xo.html

  • @connordebruler3264
    @connordebruler3264 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I have a theory that psychopaths can't truly enjoy film. The breakdown of the expressions of emotions in the actor's faces leaves them without a roadmap to following the emotional trajectory of the story.

    • @marknewbold2583
      @marknewbold2583 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also rightwingers

    • @thekotabear3262
      @thekotabear3262 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@marknewbold2583 gay

    • @ringringbananarchy
      @ringringbananarchy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Most psychopaths have a fine understanding of emotional expression. In fact they often use that to prey upon victims (often these particular ones are called 'sociopaths' by many, but clinically "sociopaths" are just psychopaths, there is no clinical sociopathy). Just because they don't have it themselves, doesn't mean that they don't understand it. The heavily autistic are the ones that can't decipher others expressions or body language or emotional impact.

    • @xxxYYZxxx
      @xxxYYZxxx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a theory that only psychopaths enjoy films, which then explains society exactly, unlike your theory.

    • @connordebruler3264
      @connordebruler3264 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@xxxYYZxxx Elaborate, why is this?

  • @jguinto101
    @jguinto101 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Subjective camera moves 😂

  • @p_ttown1979
    @p_ttown1979 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ik everyone has multiple interests but it feels like a random crossover hearing bill harder discuss kurosawa

  • @Hammockrider
    @Hammockrider 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow. I've gotta start reading Russian Literature.

  • @boztos6025
    @boztos6025 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My opinion of Hader just jumped up by a lot.

  • @Smithcraft1
    @Smithcraft1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's too bad you couldn't use a picture of Akira Kurosawa in your thumbnail.

  • @bobschenkel7921
    @bobschenkel7921 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bill mentions Russian literature a few times, but never mentions Kurosawa's true Russian film, "Dersu Uzala", a truly bleak and unforgiving movie.

  • @corey-bird3489
    @corey-bird3489 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And he kisses his sensei with that mouth?