

Help me make more videos! Support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Start your 30 DAY FREE TRIAL now at https://mubi.com/likestoriesofold With the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union. Follow me: Sign up for my weekly newsletter: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/likestoriesofold Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOO About this video essay: Analysis exploring the humanistic themes and filmmaking philosophy found in the beautiful compositions of movement from master of cinema Akira Kurosawa. Other episodes in the Filmmaker Philosophies series: Terrence Malick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oohg3LZd898 Andrei Tarkovsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNezdOlS-aw Werner Herzog - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1W5wAGzCpU Sources: Every Frame A Painting – Akira Kurosawa – Composing Movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8 The Cinema Cartography – Seven Samurai – Drama Through Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZSRxp-dJ-Q Akira Kurosawa – Something Like An Autobiography: https://amzn.to/3bIbgw1 Roger Ebert on Kurosawa: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/akira-kurosawa-focused-on-individual-ethical-dilemmas Further Reading: Like Stories of Old – The Complete Reading List: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/reading-list 10 Books that changed my life: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-books-that-changed-my-life 10 More books that inspired my thinking: https://kit.co/likestoriesofold/10-more-books-that-inspired-my-thinking Media included: Drunken Angel; Stray Dog; Rashomon; Hakuchi; Ikiru; Seven Samurai; I Live in Fear; The Lower Depths; Throne of Blood; The Hidden Fortress; The Bad Sleep Well; Yojimbo; Sanjuro; High and Low; Red Beard; Dodesukaden; Dersu Uzala; Kagemusha; Ran; Dreams; Rhapsody in Agust; Madadayo; The Searchers; Silence; The Magnificent Seven; Star Wars IV: A New Hope; Ghost of Tsushima Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Music: Cathedral – Summer Cathedral – Spring Slow Meadow – Fake Magic Is Real Dustin Lau – Portrait Slow Meadow – Those Who Rush Across the Sea Slow Meadow – We Can Only Love Through Suffering Slow Meadow – Screensaver Prelude Slow Meadow – A Small Balloon And A Great Mountain Music licensed from Musicbed. Elevate your videos with record-label quality music here: http://share.mscbd.fm/likestoriesofold

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