Mark that is Kyuzo NOT Katsushiro

He has rather a lot of other factual mistakes throughout the series to correct if he does, but knowing Cousins' rather fluid approach to language and details I wouldn't hold your breath.


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I really liked this series about film on film.

But I blamed it on my own ears and to not always understand the accent, thereby somewhat excusing the mistake of Kyuzo being in fact Katsushiro (he's meant to say Kyuzo), so much so - that I myself started believing I was wrong all along.. haha. And I've seen '7 Samurai' 10+ times since 2004 (my first and very special time).

I enjoyed the series as a whole, though I felt the 2 last episodes were too recent to have the same impact, as the first 13 episodes.

- I must state, that I voted 'no' to finding the highlighted review on the imdb page for 'the story of film', in if it was helpful - as I think 1 star is too harsh altogether.

I gave the series 8 of 10 in my voting.


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It's Kyuzu. Maybe it has alternate spellings. I already posted about this. I did not mind if Cousins was not familiar with "Gone With the Wind," when he identified Scarlett and Gerald O'Hara as "the lovers," because a film historian might look down on that. But I don't see how someone could have no reaction to "The Seven Samurai," which was my favorite film for years, particularly someone who calls himself a film historian. He probably watched it because he thought he was supposed to and was doing something else during the whole movie.

Also he says "Ikiru" is about a man who was "born during the feudal period." Really, when Japan built its first railroad in 1872? It's true they resisted Westernization right after Perry made them at cannon-point allow merchants to build wharves and warehouses, in 1853. But they caught up very fast once they decided the train was a good idea! The Takashi Shimura character would have been born in the 1890s. OK, I just looked it up, he was "middle-aged" and had worked in the same civil service job for 30 years, Wikipedia says, and it was released in 1952. So the character was born about 1900. (If you have ever seen those watercolors of human "coolie" labor carrying samurai-class people in litters, as well as goods on their backs, you would know why Japan wanted a railroad along the grand trunk road, the Tokaido connecting Kyoto and Tokyo. I actually saw this when I was in Japan, old women bent double at the waist. They walked in a permanent stoop.)

I just checked Cousins' hodgepodge, Episode 11, titled strangely "Arrival of the Multiplexes" when so far it's about Hong Kong in the 1950s, and he says cinema was "feminine" in Hong Kong in the 1950s and starts praising director King Hu for "masculinizing" it. This is really funny, because the star of Hu's most famous film, "Come Drink With Me," is a female martial arts star, who played "Jade Fox" in "Crouching Tiger," Cheng Peipei. He chose her for her ballet training.

Mark Cousins could have seen a documentary about the history of Hong Kong cinema, "Chop Socky." It said women kept wuxia going back in the silent era, I believe, although I cannot remember exactly when this type of movie was all-female. Wuxia have fight scenes with a lot of acrobatics and flying with wires.

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