High and Low
For whatever reason I've had a hard time clicking with Kurosawa films outside of Ikiru. I think that the primary story here is an intriguing one but I felt it's delivery to be a bit too slow for me. The length of the film was felt and there were a lot of times I found myself getting detached from the story. The film looks really good and I thought Mifune did a really great job of acting. Kurosawa is one of the better directors as far as attention to detail but sometimes it even seems like he goes a bit overboard with it.
I'm not saying it's a bad film but it definitely could have been chopped at least a half hour and it would have made it a better film. I've always liked films that deal with things such as ransoms so this was something on the surface that should have been a favorite, but it fell a decent amount short of that for me.
For whatever reason I've had a hard time clicking with Kurosawa films outside of Ikiru. I think that the primary story here is an intriguing one but I felt it's delivery to be a bit too slow for me. The length of the film was felt and there were a lot of times I found myself getting detached from the story. The film looks really good and I thought Mifune did a really great job of acting. Kurosawa is one of the better directors as far as attention to detail but sometimes it even seems like he goes a bit overboard with it.
I'm not saying it's a bad film but it definitely could have been chopped at least a half hour and it would have made it a better film. I've always liked films that deal with things such as ransoms so this was something on the surface that should have been a favorite, but it fell a decent amount short of that for me.
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