miker wrote:
"I'm not familiar with [Kurosawa]."
Ooh, you're in for a treat.
"Yojimbo looked like the one that I think has been referred
to as an adaptation of RED HARVEST."
That's the one. It was later remade as Fistfull of Dollars.
Walter Hill did an even later, and lesser, adaptation (of
which one, officially, I can't remember) with Bruce Willis,
Last Man Standing.
Seven Samurai was remade as The Magnificent Seven. Parts of
the real first Star Wars (the attack on the Death Star)
supposedly owe a whole lot to Hidden Fortress, but I haven't
seen that one.
As I wrote a few months ago, High and Low is a fantastic
adaptation of Ed McBain's King's Ransom. Stray Dog follows
cop Toshiro Mifune around as he tries to track down his
handgun that was stolen and used in a crime.
"Can I get a decent understanding of the movies reading
English subtitles?"
Not a problem. As you can probably tell from the number of
his films that have become westerns, spaghetti westerns at
that, they do not primarily revolve around the dialogue. I'm
not say there's anything wrong with the dialogue, just that
Kurosawa was a master of the visual.
Mark
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