Filmmaker Kurosawa follows the life of "I" from boy (Mitsunori Isaki) to man (Akira Terao) in eight episodes of themes like war, nature and nuclear horror.
young boy, art student, vincent van gogh, soldier, young man, elderly man, profound, creative, moving, japan, mountain, forest, countryside, tunnel, field, childhood, environmentalism, nature, war, art, aging, growing up, discovery, unknown era
For all its expensive production values, simplicity of emotion seems to be the keynote -- as it was in Shakespeare's last plays.
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