Thank you! I always thought it was kinda sad that this video didn't get more votes.

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uhhhhh.... I thought that Star Wars was a remake of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress#Influence

Kurosawa is one of the best directors by far.

there's at least six of us, that are cinemaniac enough to have certainly seen it.
ahh, yes. just checked the comments on the van gogh scene.

so many *promote-able queues, so little time, eh?

Akira Kurosawa

Alfred Hitchcock

Steven Spielberg

Sergio Leone

Francis Ford Coppola

Orson Welles.

Clint Eastwood is a fantastic Director and while he made the greatest western of all time he does not have a prolific number of hits.

I'm actually a lot more into Japanese rock and indie than Japanese movies, but I have seen Kurosawa's the Seven Samurai, which he was in, and it was an EXCELLENT film. I definitely need to check out more of his stuff.

1. Kurosawa
2. Scorsese
3. Alexander Payne
4. Welles
5. Coen Brothers

Honorable Mention:

6. Francis Ford Coppola - Sure, his later work sucked, but anyone who made The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, AND Apocalypse Now deserves at least some sort of recognition, for crying out loud.

7. Sergio Leone - How could no one mention him? He did The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in The West, and Once Upon a Time in America. Show a little respect, capisce?

8. Steven Spielberg - Some people hate him, but he's given us a lot of good films.

9. John Waters - Hello? Why am I the only one to mention this genius?

10. Hitchcock - No explanation necessary.

^ Herzog and Kurosawa would definitely be in my top 10.

Welles as wells
DeMille
Roger Corman
Max Fleischer
Werner Herzog
Akira Kurosawa
Chang Cheh/King Hu
John Sturges
John Carpenter
Gordon Parks
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr.

I'm going to make my list more difficult (or maybe easier, depending on your point of view) by limiting myself to current, contemporary, living persons. This removes obvious picks like Kubrick, Welles, Kurosawa and Hitchcock who would otherwise be at the top. Here's my list, in no particular order:

1) The Coens - plural I know, but you can't have one without the other. These brothers have produced masterpieces in every genre they've attempted. Crime, drama, comedy, mobsters, whatever. Always entertaining and very deserving of their recent Oscar.
2) Paul Thomas Anderson. A not terribly prolific director, but a thoughtful one. One of the few whose movies you must attend in the theatre simply because HE made it!
3) Wes Anderson- You can count on Wes for taking you to a place you've never been before, and no matter how fucked up your family may seem to you, the families portrayed in a Wes Anderson film are more disturbed and dysfunctional. Not to say that they're not loving and well-intentioned, just misguided.
4) Clint Eastwood- He has become a master of his craft. Few others will take the time to luxuriate in a scene like Eastwood. His long cuts and deliberate pacing show a respect for the intelligence and attention span of his audience.
5) Martin Scorsese- of all the great Directors born in the new Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1970s, only Scorsese remains at the top of his game. Others such as Spielberg, Lucas (ugh), Coppola, Friedkin etcetera have left their best work in the distant past.

i have the sudden urge to do the same thing now, using Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress".

*requeue

I bet if this was a Ran, Rashmon or Yojimbo clip it would have been out of the queue already. Yet personally I think its one of Kurosawa's best yet horribly underrated films.

I just watched this movie again last week. I know some of the harsher critics like to say that Akira Kurosawa is a little over the top, but I disagree. Great film.

You can see another dream here too... http://www.videosift.com/video/Akira-Kurosawas-Dreams-Sunshine-Through-the-Rain

That is awesome news! I can't wait to see other earlier Akira Kurosawa pictures come out!

Amazing sift pigeon.