Madadayo 1993

A.O. Scott, New York Times: It's not one of Kurosawa's great films; the compass of feeling is, in the end, too narrow, the scope of human reference too restricted. But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect. Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: A lifetime of moviemaking -- Kurosawa was 83 when he made it -- seems to have pared down his technique to its essentials. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is the kind of film we would all like to make, if we were very old and very serene. There were times when I felt uncannily as if Kurosawa were filming his own graceful decline into the night. Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: This warm, celebratory and very public film is punctuated by sudden and luminous private visualizations. Read more

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