Having already added an assortment of horror movies and martial arts flicks to its archive, The Moon Books Project has elected to host several of Akira Kurosawa's films for fans to download and watch on their Nintendo DS. For the homebrew uninitiated, the site also has information on what hardware and software you'll need to play the movies on your handheld.Titles like Sanshiro Sugata, They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail, Rashomon, Stray Dog, and Ikiru, all films from the first ten years of the Japanese director's filmography, have been posted. While Kurosawa's samurai classics -- Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Ran, etc. -- are noticeably missing, you really can't argue with free movies! We just hope that the English subtitles aren't too hard to read on such a small screen. Swing past the break for trailers of two of the available films.
Rashomon:
Ikiru:
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11-10-2007 @ 11:00PM
Joshua said...
Is this illegal?
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11-11-2007 @ 7:55AM
TheGamingBurrito said...
Nope! Pretty sure his stuff is in the public domain.
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11-11-2007 @ 12:44PM
Chase said...
Ya know, this is pretty neat. It'll give some people a way to increase their knowledge of fine film. If I had not already seen a good chunk of Kurosawa's movies, I'd give it a go, though the absence of Ran is mildly disheartening.
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11-11-2007 @ 1:51PM
Nigeria said...
This is cool, probably.
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11-12-2007 @ 2:42AM
Strike Man said...
"Pretty sure his stuff is in the public domain."
I'm pretty sure none of his works are in the public domain...
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11-12-2007 @ 12:03PM
phanboy_iv said...
Yes! I remember Rashomon. Now to catch up on the others.
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11-16-2007 @ 5:01PM
Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) said...
Ikiru is one of the best films of all time, and was loosely inspired by Tolsoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," which is one of the best short stories of all time. If you only see one Kurosawa film, make it Ikiru. Also, Ran is not just a samurai film, it's also a great adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. In fact, just watch every movie he's ever made. They're all solid gold. Oh man I love Kurosawa.
Watch Hidden Fortress, and then watch Star Wars, and you'll have all the proof you need to know George Lucas is an idea-less hack. But we didn't need any more proof, now did we?
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11-16-2007 @ 5:17PM
Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) said...
Typo: Tolstoy.
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