Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Necatoriasis Ame Agaru was one of the most intricate films I have seen so far--not because it had a complicated plot or pieces that fit into a missing puzzle, but because the messages in it conveyed a wisdom that accompanied the life of the samurai. There was little majesty addressed to the fighting lifestyle and code of honour that encompasses the samurai way of living; instead, it focused on the simplicity of the day to day life behind the majesty of such mystic creatures. The film was beautifully directed, the aesthetic of the atmosphere was amazing, the acting had a humble approach that truly reflected the modesty of the wise samurai, and the film's length was just enough to convey the message accurately without going into extraneous details or without being too short. This film addressed the grandeur found even in the stagnant way of living for the samurai, and what I was even more pleased to see was that the film addressed the wisdom of releasing ego and the will to win. Those who sought to win seemed to be self-defeating, and only when the way of the warrior becomes that egoless path can the warrior cross the river after the rain and see where he is going.

Jessica Carvalho I agree with Jose Guilherme, that many of Kurosawa's movies are a little bit tiring, and also that the characters of this movie,Ame agaru are very charismatic.This movie really made me a surprise,since it's very optimistic, and with a good message, about helping other people and to forget the bad side of the past, to turn into a better person in the future.:) Also shows the monster of envy, when other fighters are jealous about misawa's habilities and the fact that he is invited to be the Master of all the fighters and warriors of the landlord.I recommend it to everybody who wants a nice day!:)

sir_dancelot A samurai and his wife search to find happiness with themselves, their relationship, and their station as they weather the disillusion of their past and current circumstances.Written by Akira Kurosawa and directed by Takashi Koizumi after Kurosawa's death. This is a breathtaking reflection of Kurosawa's early and later storytelling sensabilities. But it is a very complex film, one that upon initial viewing may defy the viewers expectations of the samurai genre and seem simplistic, overly long, or as one reviewer described: unexciting.This film reminds me very much of Red Beard, another Kurosawa story that while set in feudal Japan is not necessarily a samurai film.Rating 9/10

whatdoes1know Ame Agaru, though scripted by master Kurosawa, and like many of his other movies, based on a short story by Yamamoto Shugoro, just doesn't work. The Kurosawa crew is the same, thus the cinematic beauty remains, but being on master Kurosawa's footsteps doesn't make Koizumi Takashi a Kurosawa Akira. Master Kurosawa was a war hawk, and his battlefield was the set. If he wanted a slope where there was none, his crew mounted the dirt and built the slope to suit his visions. If a whole field of wheat had to be hand-painted in gold, the crew went out there and spent the day preparing for a shot. Master Kurosawa could single out and yell at an extra in a mob scene of battling feudal warriors for not falling correctly, like a dying samurai would. With all the good intentions with which Ame Agaru was made, it does not have the edge at which master Kurosawa yanked his actors. The actors in Ame Agaru are all fine actors, but they are not the fierce soldiers led by general Kurosawa. Instead, they are the humanitarian souls who volunteered to come help victims long after the general was gone and the war was over.