Hello everybody and welcome to another bald move prestige podcast another commission the two time two time and maybe maybe more but I know at least to Michael who recently brought us in bruge back at the table again with the 1952 Japanese drama

Akiru directed by the master himself, Akira Kurosawa, co-written with him alongside Shinobu Hashamoto and Hadeo Oguni.

It's based on Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Iliich, which I am not familiar with. It stars Takashi Shimura, who is a long-time

collaborator. I mean his is this guy's filmography. This is one of the greats of

Japan but he collaborated with Curizah I think 11 times including for Rashaman

seven samurai he was the professor in the O. G. Godzilla. Okay. Wow that's I, I think, going to come out four years later from the same company releasing

Godzilla or released a hero. It also stars Kamatari Fujiwara who also collaborated with, you know, Kirasawa, which isn't that, you know, like

Kirisawa is like, it's like

I collaborate with Martin Scorsese. Like, yeah, yeah, a lot of people did.

A lot of people did. She worked with him on Hidden Fortress Jojimbo.

Unfortunately, I don't, like, you know, this is where I run into a particularly old foreign films is like I

I don't know who's famous and like what name is going to like like if you leave out it's going to destroy.

These are I think the unquestionable stars of the film.

Yeah, so like let's start.

What did you think of this 1952 Japanese film

about life and death and the meaning of same

and bureaucracy and fleetingness of youth.

And in family dynamics in Japan and the 50s.

Yeah, it's about all that stuff.

I think it's a good movie or let's say the when I watched it I thought oh that was good

But I don't feel like it it's largely hailed as like one of the best

movies ever made and I can see why that might have been true in 1952, definitely. It's like I was looking at a list of 1950s movies made in America.

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