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Synopsis: This is essentially eight separate short films, though with some overlaps in terms of characters and thematic material - chiefly that of man's relationship with his environment. 'Sunshine Through The Rain': a young boy is told not to go out on the day when both weather conditions occur, because that's when the foxes hold their wedding procession, which could have fatal consequences for those who witness it. 'The Peach Orchard': the same young boy encounters the spirits of the peach trees that have been cut down by heartless humans. 'The Blizzard': a team of mountaineers are saved from a blizzard by spiritual intervention. 'The Tunnel': a man encounters the ghosts of an army platoon, whose deaths he was responsible for. 'Crows': an art student encounters 'Vincent Van Gogh' and enters the world of his paintings. 'Mount Fuji in Red': nuclear meltdown threatens the devastation of Japan. 'The Weeping Demon': a portrait of a post-nuclear world populated by human mutations. 'Village of the Wa
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
59%
PG
Year:
1990
119 min
2,579 Views


How terrible.

It's worse than that!

Didn't you know?

The nuclear power

plant has exploded.

The six atomic reactors.

They're exploding one after another.

Japan is so small there's no escape.

We all know that.

No way out. But still we have to try.

No other way.

This is the end.

But...

...what happened?

Where did all those people go?

Where did they escape to?

To the bottom of the sea.

The dolphins.

Even they're leaving.

Lucky dolphins.

They can swim away.

It won't help.

The radioactivity will get them.

The clouds...

...the red one.

It's Plutonium-239.

10,000,000th of a gram causes cancer.

The yellow one is strontium-90.

It gets inside you...

...and causes leukemia.

The purple one is cesium-137.

It affects reproduction.

It causes mutations.

It makes monstrosities.

Man's stupidity is unbelievable.

Radioactivity was invisible.

And because of its danger, they colored it.

But that only lets you know

which kind kills you.

Death's calling card.

See you later.

Wait!

Radiation doesn't kill you at once.

So what?

A slow death is even worse.

I refuse to die slowly, adults dying...

They've lived long enough already.

But the children haven't even

lived yet. It's unfair.

Waiting to die isn't living.

They told us that nuclear plants were safe.

Human accident is the danger,

not the nuclear plant itself.

No accidents, no danger. That's

what they told us. What liars!

If they're not hanged for this,

I'll kill them myself.

Don't worry. The radioactivity

will do that for you.

I'm sorry.

I am one of those who deserve to die.

THE WEEPING DEMON

Human, aren't you?

What's wrong?

Are you a demon?

I suppose so.

But I used to be human.

What a world.

How stupid!

Long ago...

...this place was a beautiful field

of flowers.

Then those nuclear bombs,

those missiles...

...turned it into this desert.

Now...

...because of all that fallout...

...strange flowers grow.

Dandelions.

Dandelions?

Monster dandelions.

This is a rose.

The stem grows from the flower...

...and a strange bud at the top.

This is all radiation polluted.

It makes this mutation.

The flowers are crippled.

Not only flowers.

Human beings, too. Look at me.

Stupid mankind did this.

It made our planet a junkyard

for poisonous wastes.

Nature has vanished from the earth,

the nature we used to enjoy.

We've lost the birds, animals, fish.

Some time ago...

...I saw a two-faced hare...

...a one-eyed bird...

...and a hairy fish.

How do you eat then?

There's no food!

We feed on ourselves.

The weak ones go first.

It's about my turn now.

Even here, we have grades.

One-horn demons like myself always get...

...eaten by those

who have two or three horns.

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Akira Kurosawa

After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom. Drunken Angel (1948)--"Drunken Angel"--was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford. After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashomon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991) and Maadadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Rashomon (1950) as The Outrage (1964), Seven Samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Hidden Fortress (1958), as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). more…

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