Postwar Kurosawa in Time Out
Our new Postwar Kurosawa Eclipse set "should substantially rectify a few general misconceptions" regarding Kurosawa's career, according to David Fear in Time Out New York: namely, that Kurosawa was primarily a director of samurai movies, and also that Rashomon marked his "fully formed" emergence as a filmmaker. Instead, Fear praises "the genius of this particular grouping" of resonant, genre-spanning films that address the "then-current state of the nation" in 1940s and 50s Japan.
