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Wing Chun (1994)
The beginning of a new kung fu style
Warning: Some may consider this comment as a spoiler, but in fact this is only a brief introduction on who Yong Chun (Wing Chun) is and why she is a famous character in the history of modern kung fu. Miss Yim Wing Chun is a real person lived about 300 years ago. Her name is still remembered until today as the name of one of the toughest kung fu fighting method. Although she is not the one who created the style (the real creator is a female Shaolin Master Wu May/Ng Mui, Wing Chun's kung fu teacher), but her name is used as the name of the kung fu style because the master herself is on the run escaping from Shaolin traitors who burnt the Shaolin Temple. The kungfu style itself is becoming famous partly because one of it's followers is also considered a legend in modern kung fu world. He was Bruce Lee. Therefore Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do style is a descendant of Wing Chun Style.
Yume (1990)
A dream indeed
As usual, Akira Kurosawa had made a movie into an art work, colorful and beautiful, just like a painting. Note that the colors was not only bright colors but gloomy colors as well. I will refer this movie as a painting, and the painter was Akira Kurosawa.
We may not understand well about this movie, but after all it was a dream, which was well described in the title of the movie. Who can understand about dreams? Even his/her own dreams. Maybe Kurosawa have dreamed about fairies and spirits, which was a lot in the movie. Maybe Akira was trying to capture dreams and hopes and also dissappointment by those spirits. Hope as a child was entertained by the spirits of peach trees or dissappointment and regrets that was felt by an army commander seeing his dead platoon got back from the dead.
So, Akira Kurosawa was just painting his dreams and we should just enjoy his painting without any questions.