I've been meaning to catch up on Kurosawa myself. All I've seen so far is Cure, which is pretty damn awesome. I've got Doppelganger within arms reach for months now and I still haven't gotten around to watching it.
Maybe that's because I spend my free time watching really terrific movies like
Pontypool, which asks the question "What would happen if Don Imus were the protagonist in a horror movie?", and follows up with a highly satisfactory answer. Besides radio dispatches from mysterious elsewheres, the action never leaves the downmarket radio station the recently demoted malcontent finds himself in. While the displaced shock jock is only too happy to stir the hornets nest of the small town he's in, very weird shit happens and the ongoing story that the station is broadcasting becomes uncomfortingly familiar before too long.
I like short movies. Movies that know exactly how to say a lot with a little, don't overstay their welcome, present their ideas and don't waste time on dross. Pontypool does all that, and works in lots of interesting subtext about journalism and commentary. Its the best thing to come out of Canada since Elisha Cuthbert.
