I've seen his movies from Drunken Angel to The Seven Samurai and they all have the same problem for me. The worst offender is Ikiru, which is essentially two movies: one pretty great 90-minute one, and a really boring 60-minute one which laboriously explains the former. Still, despite this and their too slow pace, I enjoyed these films overall because Kurosawa was such an inspired visual storyteller, but they're far from what I'd consider being among the greatest movies ever as most people do.Quoting Dead & Messed Up (view post)