Synopsis
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
1999 ‘雨あがる’ Directed by Takashi Koizumi
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
Akira Terao Yoshiko Miyazaki Shirō Mifune Hisashi Igawa Hidetaka Yoshioka Tatsuya Nakadai Mieko Harada Fumi Dan Takayuki Katô Tatsuo Matsumura Makiya Yamaguchi Toshihide Wakamatsu Kenji Kodama Eiji Yokota Diamond Katsuta Masayoshi Nagasawa Tappei Shimokawa Mieko Suzuki Kōen Okumura Takao Zushi Akihiko Sugisaki Utaroku Miyakoya Tetsuya Ito Masahiro Noguchi Yûko Moriyama Kyoko Oguma
Ame Agaru, Depois da Chuva, Die Regenwand weicht, After the rain, Nach dem Regen, Après la pluie, Eső után, Ame agaru, אחרי הגשם, Po deszczu, 雨停了, 黑之雨, Dopo la pioggia, После дождя, 비 그치다
This was a beautiful experience on a Sunday morning, as it would have been at every hour of the week. A deeply humanistic approach to the Samurai tale.
The film is dedicated to Akira Kurosawa who at the time recently had passed away, but did finish writing the script. Kurosawa was a master at filming rain, and is something director Koizumi pays homage to in the opening. This film is highly recommended.
Based on a posthumous script by Akira Kurosawa and directed by his longtime AD Takashi Koizumi, After the Rain feels like something of an anachronism. It was released in 1999, and to say the Jidaigeki picture was out might be somehow be less direct than saying that's the year The Matrix came out and letting that speak for itself. It was really lovely to get lost in this though. This film has a beautiful look and contemplative pace that nicely complement the serene tone and thoughtful writing on the genre and the lonely life of a ronin. Along with some great combat sequences, all those pluses help outweigh a bit of a weak overall conflict. It all shakes out to a movie that make it a very good, probably appropriately under the radar period piece. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon, or in my case a rainy Monday evening.
Even if your hair grays and your happiness wavers.
Even if this world rejects you.
I'll remain by your side forever.
This gentle, pensive exploration of kindness and generosity embodied in a skilled warrior is a moving example of the belief in man's natural goodness that filled so much of the work of Akira Kurosawa, upon whose script this picture was based. It is a touching and vastly engaging film, directed with surprising skill and tenderness by Takashi Koizumi in his first dramatic feature. Koizumi captures not only the spirit of humanity in his characters, but does so in a way that places them as an intricate part of the natural world, photographed stunningly by Shôji Ueda. Lifted with enormous strength by the magnificent score of Kurosawa favorite Masaru Sato, the picture is a quiet gem, despite the fact that swordplay…
Akira Kurosawa’s final script is brought to the screen by his longtime assistant director the year after his death. (A brief but touching dedication to Kurosawa precedes the film.) After the Rain was in fact supposed to be the master’s next effort, but he passed just before shooting began and Takashi Koizumi stepped in. And though he doesn’t quite possess the magic touch, he acquits himself well and does his mentor proud. With some gorgeous rural scenery and perhaps the most humble and kind protagonist in any Kurosawa film, After the Rain posits that what truly matters isn’t what you do, but why you do it.
A simple, heartwarming, and beutiful film that serves as both the final screenplay to Akira kurosawa and a homage to his work.
That Also has the most frustrating and incomplete ending in any samurái movie whatoever.
Landscapes and a samurai and his wife and landscapes and poor people and landscapes and a local nobleman. Melancholy, autumn-vibe; the best bits reminded me of King Hu, but it wasn't quite that radical about ignoring action sequences.
A simple exercise in beauty both literal and figurative. It looks great and its depiction of the lead's humanity is wonderful, slowly revealing a bit more nuance about his actions as things progress. The limited scope is very appropriate as the film says what it's trying to say efficiently and effectively.
58/100
Kurosawa's final script. A good afternoon watch. Nice atmosphere and flows calmly but overall nothing really special.
Based on the last script written by master auteur Akira Kurosawa, adapting the short story by Shûgorô Yamamoto (author of the source material for Red Beard, Sanjuro, and Dodes'ka-den) director Takashi Koizumi—previously the assistant director, in varying levels of rank, for Kurosawa's final five films (Kagemusha, Ran, Dreams, Rhapsody in August, and Madadayo)—and starring several Kurosawa alumni (a great many from Ran, including Mieko Harada, once again playing a prone-to-tirade viper), After the Rain ["Ame agaru"] is a quaint work following Ihei Misawa (Akira Terao), an aging, amiable rōnin caught amid the internal feud of the local fiefdom.
Kurosawa had reportedly completed preproduction on the film shortly before his death in 1998. His son, Hisao Kurosawa (producer of four of…
الفلم من كتابة اكيرا كوروساوا وتم
إنتاجه تخليداً لذكراه للمخرج تاكاشي كويزومي واللذي كما قرأت انه كان مُساعداً لكوروساوا في كثير من افلامه!!
قصته عن مجموعة رحاله فقراء
يأتي عليهم مطر كثيف ويمنعهم
من اكمال مسيرتهم ويضطرون للتوقف والمبيت في منطقة تحصل لهم ولمعلمهم بعض المواقف فيها
"نَفَس" كوروساوا في الفلم كان واضحا وربما لو كان الفلم تم انتاجه في السابق لرأينا الممثل الرائع توشيرو ميفوني بطلا له بدور المعلم (ابنه موجودفي الفلم على كل حال ولكن لم يأخذ دور المعلم😄)
والممثل المسمى بـ اكيرا تيراو
قام بأداء دور "المعلم" كما يجب 👍
الفلم جميل وكأنه احد افلام
كوروساوا في الخمسينات ولكن بالالوان!!
I love that this was made in 1999 but feels like it's from the late 60s early 70s
Simple story of a great man with a few really nice fights here.