It's fine, i think the celebration ended long ago.  
 
Locking my own thread sucks but thanks to inconsiderate users, it has to be so.

Since this is a thread about Akira Kurosawa, then I suggest that everyone stays on topic.  If anyone wants to talk about anything else (whether it's cake, clapping or bizarre accusations of rewriting history) then do it in private.  

" @The Sharp Dressed Lady said:

" Ah, so now you're using our freedom to buy your cars as a weapon against the truth that you can't handle.  Eat your cake.  "

You seem to have an obsession with: 
 
1, this thread; 
2, confusing Japanese for Cantonese films; and 
3, cake. 
 
How about taking up knitting or stamp collecting?  It might help you to focus on something constructive for a change.    Back on topic, Akira Kurosawa is one of my favourite film makers of all time.  Although as a director he didn't really break any major ground, he was a fantastic story-teller.  Probably why Lucas liked his work so much.  It's so easy for people to confuse a 2 second google search with reality. "

" Ah, so now you're using our freedom to buy your cars as a weapon against the truth that you can't handle.  Eat your cake.  "

i love cake!

Ah, so now you're using our freedom to buy your cars as a weapon against the truth that you can't handle. 
 
Eat your cake. 

"Need more proof... Check out the pic from up on top of akira k. He's using a MADE-IN-AMERICA Panavision camera to make his classic. HAHA Oh, brilliant creator one... 
 

 This is it for me on this thread. For Mistress Redhead, Happy Birthday. Enjoy your cake.  "

awww the chicks post was deleted

Glad you all have either found a way to like what he has done or seen the potential in him. 
 
I am sorry for some peoples comments on here and if they offended anyone, i did try repeatedly to stop her/him

You must be a big fan of him Mistress! :) 
 
Happy B-day Akira, didn't know who he was til today.

Happy birthday!  I wish I could find that awesome happy birthday song I heard two years ago. 

Kurosawa was awesome and I bid him a good birthday.

Much thanks!!!!  Sake bombs for all of you!

oh yeah and happy birthday devilman

" @Constantine said:

" @The Sharp Dressed Lady said:

"Name ONE thing America steals from asia "

Ok :D

• The forbidden kingdom was a 2008 American movie that was based off Asian films
• There is also the American horror movie "The Ring" which was copied off the Japanese horror movie "Ring"
• There is also Godzilla which is originally Japanese
  

"

I'll only reply to this because you asked, and I will try to be polite and I will end it here. This "forbidden kingdom" thing was not American, and we couldn't care less about it. "The Ring" crap was an asian reproduction of its own movie to sell to America, that we could care less about. The Godzilla remake was also an asian production that was bizarrely set in America. Stop trying to blame us for your crap.  This is it for me on this thread. For Mistress Redhead, Happy Birthday. Enjoy your cake.  "

• This "forbidden kingdom" thing is American, produced by Lionsgate and Weinstein, it stars michael angarano and jackie chan (you obviously don't know what it is)
• The Ring was remade by hollywood
• And Godzilla was produced by the Toho company in Tokyo
  

Both countries have examples of both brilliant and shotty film making.  It doesn't really make sense to boil it down to one country makes good films while the other doesn't, it's simply a false dichotomy.
@DevilmanEX:
Do you know if "Samurai Resurrection" is available on DVD in  the US yet?

" @The Sharp Dressed Lady: This is becoming harrasment and I would like you to stay out of my blog please. "

" @The Sharp Dressed Lady said:

"Name ONE thing America steals from asia "

Ok :D

• The forbidden kingdom was a 2008 American movie that was based off Asian films
• There is also the American horror movie "The Ring" which was copied off the Japanese horror movie "Ring"
• There is also Godzilla which is originally Japanese
  

"

Here we go, I found it!
 

"  @kadeem:  yea I love that movie.  Look out for  HISSHIKEN TORISASHI this summer.  I think it comes out in Japan in June but its gonna be pretty kick ass from how the trailer looks.  Vintage Samurai action....NOW IS TECHNICOLOR! lol  "

 @kadeem:  yea I love that movie.  Look out for  HISSHIKEN TORISASHI this summer.  I think it comes out in Japan in June but its gonna be pretty kick ass from how the trailer looks.  Vintage Samurai action....NOW IS TECHNICOLOR! lol 

There is a recent film called "Samurai Fiction" which is a light hearten comedy that pays tribute to the samurai films of that period.

Yojimbo is DEF a Kurosawa fav.  Its crazy to think that the best Samurai flicks are damn near 50 years old

" @Constantine: omg you have never seen a Kurosawa film? for shame!! lol  tell me you have seen some Sergio Leone! "

" Seriously Hollywood leave the classics be! "

"Name ONE thing America steals from asia "

• The forbidden kingdom was a 2008 American movie that was based off Asian films
• There is also the American horror movie "The Ring" which was copied off the Japanese horror movie "Ring"
• There is also Godzilla which is originally Japanese
  

Kurosawa was one of the greatest film directors of all time.  Directors such as George Lucas & Spike Lee have said that he has affected the way they think about film making.  His films often function for effective metaphors for both the inner soul of the individual and society.  He is a talent that will always be missed.  Those of you who are Japanese film buffs may like to also check out the work of Masaki Kobayashi.  He is a director from the same period as Kurosawa, and in Japan he is considered to be in the same league of directors.  Two of his films that I would recommend are "Sword Of Doom" & "Samurai Rebellion", both starring Yojimbo's Toshiro Mifune.
@.Mistress Redhead.:
Thanks a lot for posting this thread.  It was a very pleasant surprise.

Never heard of him, but everyone deserves a happy birthday.

Wow me and Kurosawa have same Bday?!  Awesomeness!  Maybe I'll watch Ran or Seven Samurai tonight.  Don't know if I can make a drinking game out of either one though....Hmmm...Maybe every time Toshiro Mifune makes a makes one of his non verbal crazy sounds in Seven Samurai I'll drink.  Or I can drink for each bandit killed!  Nonetheless,  Kurosawa-san, Otanjou-bi Omedetou gozaimasu!

Never actually heard of him, and I'm a film fanatic... though I do stray from asian cinema

Happy birthday to him

He's good stuff. and in whatever case, here he is doing the job, and credited 
for it, and quite the lot of it, so theres that. If MR says its good ill support it.
Bruce Lee didnt invent martial arts, movies, nor acting either. Its still not like
he didnt do his part either for it though, nor as if he didnt broaden the view of it.
Because he certainly did that and has the credentials to prove it. Like saying
im not the best apple salesman because i didnt invent apples? hardly.
The popularity of his work and the films he worked on speaks for itself.

Amzaing director. Happy birthday
 
@The Sharp Dressed Lady: This is a thread to celebrate the life of a great director. Not to start an argument about who stole what.

anyway..... 
 
happy birthday to him :)

"Seven Samurai" was stolen from many things, including The Justice Society of America, The All-Winners Squad and Blackhawk, each which predated "Seven Samurai", when comics were intentionally and conveniently illegal in japan, as did "The Most Dangerous Game". And the japanese loved ripping off our big dinosaur and monster movies, too.
 
Everything, from manufacturing to comics to action movies to music. Even their "romanji" scribble was taught to them to communicate to Americans, of all things. ALL rip-offs, girl.
 
Name ONE thing America steals from asia, and I'll give you a free "made-in-china" knock-off iPhone, and a free "made-in-japan" home computer and electric crash-mobile, and free pirated Iron Man, Superman and Forbidden Planet DVDs, AND their free pirated "Astroboy", "Ultraman" and "Mysterians" knock-offs. AND, I'll throw in free pirate t-shirts with matching sweatsuits and wristwatches.
 
AND, I'll throw in a million counterfeit American Dollar Bills, stolen gold and manufactured fantasy debt. Along with terrorism to invasion to occupation to poverty to diseases to government made empty skyscrapers to internet trolling to computer virus / hack attacks on The West to internet fraud and identity theft to Wikipedia entries... the endless list of all the usual suspects. Holey moley, Batman!!
 
Complete with a giant dinosaur movie made-in-japan, from "gojira" on up.
 
Ya, we know all about japan and asia. If you believe certain show-business press of their own making, you'd have thought they'd invented The Universe with their bare totalitarian hands.
 
 And, according to them, they invented Google now, too. Isn't that novel.
 
You seem like such a sweet girl, but truth needs to be told.  
 
Also, Richard Fleischer did. Not the other guy.