Saturday, August 14, 2010

Sanshiro Sugata

Japan Akira Kurosawa

This was his first film...1943. The story was pretty generic but throughout he used crane shots and imaginative tableaux that would have stood out sharply from what else was being done at that time.

Much footage was destroyed by the wartime government so we only see a truncated version but it is enough to see the future genius developing.

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