At the age of 83, Kurosawa draw an ending of his filmmaking career. As he himself said "me minus films equals zero." like Jean-Luc Godard, he dedicated himself into this great modern art form, and indeed had a place in this film directors pantheon.
But however, his finale is sterile, compared to his whole career. It's just like Ingmar Bergman, whose final film called SARABANDE, which there are not much bravura technique, just the most sincere emotions and love presented on the screen.
NOT YET, had the color and composition, or almost all film skills that can be account as the most moderate one in all the Kurosawa's film, so no doubt, it is bland, but heartfelt, all the sequences seems like in a same room, as everybody is dress-up with tied and suit and being Kurosawa-like implicit.
Kurosawa finally projected his own vision of laconic pageantry with the ending beautiful camera movement and sky with unmentionable color but it is gorgeous, accompanying with splendid music, it's a good ending though, but the whole film is close to an old man's sigh.
But however, his finale is sterile, compared to his whole career. It's just like Ingmar Bergman, whose final film called SARABANDE, which there are not much bravura technique, just the most sincere emotions and love presented on the screen.
NOT YET, had the color and composition, or almost all film skills that can be account as the most moderate one in all the Kurosawa's film, so no doubt, it is bland, but heartfelt, all the sequences seems like in a same room, as everybody is dress-up with tied and suit and being Kurosawa-like implicit.
Kurosawa finally projected his own vision of laconic pageantry with the ending beautiful camera movement and sky with unmentionable color but it is gorgeous, accompanying with splendid music, it's a good ending though, but the whole film is close to an old man's sigh.