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I need help understanding the greatness in Kurosawa. /tv/ is of no help at all. I just watched all three of these, and.... they were just Okay. But, i guess i feel underwhelmed cause Kurosawa is built as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and stuff like Hidden Fortress inspired Star Wars and Rashumon is supposed to be so clever.
but when i watched them. these were just my thoughts

>Seven Samurai
all the characters are as deep and complex as One Piece characters. Which isnt a bad thing, but this whole film feels like some shonen anime. I dont get the serious and direness of the situation. it just feels like a comedy. Like, if you compare something like Ben Hur and the 10 commandments to this, Ben Hurr is a much more serious film thats considered an epic. In 7 samurai, 50% of the film is just the fake-samurai cracking jokes and going commando everywhere. When the film shows hes torn how he sees the baby is born the same way he was, like i dont get if im supposed to feel a deep emotion or not cause the character is a clown for the majority.

>Rashumon
it wasnt as artsy or clever as i thought. When i hear "a story told in different persectives" I thought it was going to be exploring the concept of Parallax; how a character at different vantage points tell a different story. but really, its more about each character describing the degree of a whore the wife is. Like thats the whole film; how big of a whore the wife really is. the ending is kind of deep on the moral side; ill give it that, but it didnt blow me too much away.

>hidden fortress
pretty much my same feeling with Seven Samurai; its mostly a comedy. The two protagonists who are supposed to be the inspiration for R2D2 and C3PO are more akin to Spongebob and Patrick than they are star wars. The battle scene is like obi wan and darth vader though

I tried looking up online "why are these films great" and all i see are
>it influenced star wars
okay, but star wars isnt really considered "high art" and more a blockbuster popcorn flick
>the fight scenes are magnificent
okay, but fight scenes making a film good or bad is something you say for capeshit.


I really dont get these films. Everyone WORSHIPS these films. Like they are the greatest of all time.
but i really dont get whats so great about them