Lisa Lieberman's Blog - Posts Tagged "dostoevsky"
Yojimbo
I’ve heard Yojimbo described as Japanese nihilism and that’s true up to a point. Morally speaking, there are no uplifting lessons here; it’s dog-eat-dog in Akira Kurosawa’s pioneering noir Western.
Kurosawa was a fan of Russian literature. Ten years before he made Yojimbo, he adapted a Dostoevsky novel for the screen. The Idiot was his least successful project, but it was important to him, and very personal, a bleak commentary on postwar Japanese society.
Yojimbo covers the same territory, but it turns out to be less bleak in the end.
Read more on Deathless Prose.
Kurosawa was a fan of Russian literature. Ten years before he made Yojimbo, he adapted a Dostoevsky novel for the screen. The Idiot was his least successful project, but it was important to him, and very personal, a bleak commentary on postwar Japanese society.
Yojimbo covers the same territory, but it turns out to be less bleak in the end.
Read more on Deathless Prose.
