Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the Japanese audio track “becomes the best ‘Space Kurosawa’ movie ever made”.
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I’m feeling slightly embarrassed to have my pretentiousness so immediately met by this recommendation. I’ve never seen 1-3, but now I feel like I could?
A relevant video essay (the Kurosawa edit is mentioned in the back half).
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