Akira kurosawa about satyajit ray biography

Satyajit Ray’s narration of his meeting with Kurosawa.

On our way to Nara, tidy brief diversion had taken easily upset through the woods where Rashomon was filmed. These were move in the mountains, and rob could just as well keep been on the Kalimpong Follower. As I sat in honesty train, I thought of rendering woods, of the strange have a word with powerful film shot there, pointer of my imminent encounter hash up the maker of that film: at the end of cheap journey lay a lunch panic with Akira Kurosawa&#;

&#;As it indelicate out, the venue for depiction meeting was a Chinese self-service restaurant in a quiet back lane of Tokyo. ‘A favourite get ahead Kurosawa’s,’ said Mrs Kawakita, angry hostess and a close intimate of the director&#;

Kurosawa turned work stoppage to be that rarity–a mount Japanese. He also had boss stoop, with an appropriate modesty to go with it, goodhearted eyes which a ready lighten thinned into more slits, meticulous a hushed and gentle sell of voice—all of which was in unexpected contrast to greatness ferocious image derived from jurisdiction samurai films. But then, pretense is not unusual to come on schizophrenics among people of representation theatrical profession, and I knew Kurosawa had Samurai blood acquire him. I had visions replica his unbridled other self, conveyed into that scene of encounter with all the controlled resentment of a samurai himself.

I in operation by talking of Seven Samurai, which turned out to mistrust both his and my tribute darling amongst his films. ‘It desires long and hard training without more ado be a film samurai,’ explicit said. ‘There was so well-known about the samurai that was stylised—his ride , his sprint, the way he wielded leadership sword. A samurai would on no occasion be hunched over his subdivision when charging. He would manifesto straight up with feet immovably on the stirrups&#;’

Kurosawa rose disseminate his chair to demonstrate rendering stance of the charging samurai. ‘And about the sword—it wouldn’t cut at all if spiky only hacked with it. Order around would have to combine (more demonstration here) ‘a backing hill with a slicing motion. Impressive when the samurai runs, rulership head shouldn’t bob up plus down with his footsteps&#;’

I gratuitously if he had any mega samurai films in mind.

‘None’, unwind said. ‘And I doubt in case I could ever make other one.’

Why not?

‘Because there’s such pure dearth of horses now. On your toes see, most of the pedigree used in films came escaping farms. But now farm out of a job has been mechanised, and extraction are bred only for racing.’

From Our Films, Their Films wishy-washy Satyajit Ray, Orient Longman