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Rashomon (1950) Rashomon was the big one. Released in the United States in December 1951, Rashomon was the total package. Its performances were superb. Its lighting design and technical direction were without peer. Its storytelling structure was genuinely revolutionary, opening whole new doors to the medium. So lasting and influential has this last impact been that sitcoms and TV dramas still have episodes following the structure of it.
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) No Regrets for Our Youth is an idealistic movie. It is full of noble sentiments about freedom and sacrifice. These values are very Japanese; they are also very American. When Kurosawa made the picture in 1946, he was accountable to American censors, but he was also responding to a vision of post-war Japan that he would develop throughout his career.
Last year, movie theaters began the switchover from analog to digital projection as major film stock manufacturers ceased production and studios announced their intention to stop screening 35mm prints altogether in most of the developed world. Yet despite being the only artform named for the raw material of its production (imagine “sculpture” renamed “stone”), the death of film has so far been a feature without much drama.
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