I do totally agree with what was said by these two renowned specialists. This is my favorite film by the great master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. I watched that film one evening, when alone in my modest hotel room in Rome, Italy, my friends had left to go back home, it was raining cats and dogs outside and I felt depressed. Then I saw from the window the lights of a small cinema screening "Dersu Uzala, L'Aquila della Taiga". Not knowing what it was all about, I made my mind to go and buy a ticket to watch that film. I didn't know yet that it was a Kurosawa film. I watched the film and it changed my life. Back home I enlisted to study history and anthropology (originally my first intention was to become a vet in Africa and I have kept this love of animals, especially the wildlife ones) and after graduation went to Russia and the far East, not to the exact places, not yet open to foreigners, and further to Mongolia and China. By now, after a professional life as a teacher and museum employee, just retired I am still studying these wonderful cultures and hope to get there. The beauty of the landscape, the magic of the great taiga wilderness, the marvelous but threatened wildlife, the fascinating lives of the local populations through difficulties and hardships, their visions of the world, and their beliefs added to the superb art of Master Kurosawa are in me forever. I am 67 now, I was a bit more than 20 then and this movie stands for me at the top for its deep humanism and love of nature.

@yamatokawa

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Have you read Jonathan Slaght's version of Arsenyev's book?

The movie is about friendship.

Truly a movie of an exceptional rarity, and to my sadness very underrated. Kurosawa at this time came out of a very unlucky production that ruined his credibility in Japan. After a strong depression, (and allegedly, a suicide attempt) he contacted the Russian production MosFilm to develop an adaptation of this wonderful story. So in some way, if there wasn’t this depression, sadness and rejection from Japanese production. Chances are that this movie would have never seen the light of a projector. And here we have a depressed Kurosawa climbing up the ramp of life and telling us what is the meaning of a true friendship. Truly I am happy to live in a world where this movie exist even with very few people know its existence. What is rare is always precious as much for friendship as for movies ;)

great movie and discussion

1995? It was made in 1975! Christ, only twenty years out.

Annette❤

This was the only Kurosaka film i hadnt seen for a longtime. I didnt think much of it for some reason. Its one of my favorite movies of all time period.

This man cannot stop using the Ah filler for the life of him