4º – Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
A samurai arrives in a small village amid conflict between two different gangs. After demonstrating his abilities on both fronts, the samurai decides, without gang members to know, to accept money from both, defending their own interests. In ‘Yojimbo’, Akira Kurosawa presents a more cadenced plot, showing the unevenness of the plot in dosed form, knowing exactly where each character should arrive. The film still gives us a superb performance by Toshirô Mifune ahead of the protagonist.
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3º – Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
After discovering that his life is condemned due to a health problem, a middle-aged man, wrapped in an insipid routine, decides to rethink all his moral and ethical constructions of his trajectory, opting to take advantage of his last moments of the most intense form possible. Fragmented into two histories, one before and after the death of man, ‘Ikiru’ works under the conceptualization of life for a superficial and harmful society.
2º – Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965)
An unpleasant doctor has the mission of training a young intern. Concentrated in the social relations present in that place, ‘Red Beard’ makes a counterpoint between the suffering that certain pathologies cause to the human being and the conflict of egos emanated from the doctors. Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece.
1º – Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
After being constantly attacked by random thieves, members of a poor village decide to pool their savings to hire a group of samurai to defend the site. Dynamic in all its trajectories, ‘Seven Samurai’ uses its ephemeral 207 minutes of duration to unravel the epic journey of wandering characters about various instances of the world.
Credits: Cinefilia Incandescente