Metacritic-Rezensionen

A profound and deeply moving exploration of facing death with dignity.

Unabashedly personal and uncool...but between you and me, dear reader, I love it to death.

It's not one of Kurosawa's great films.... But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect.

Little spectacle but much bittersweet sensitivity.

Has the expressionistic simplicity of Kurosawa's other late films.

It is an important work, and a very good one.

This warm, celebratory and very public film is punctuated by sudden and luminous private visualizations.

The late Akira Kurosawa's shamelessly sentimental last film is a fond and fitting farewell.

Kurosawa's farewell film is full of sentiment, tears, toasts and songs.

Wordy, wearying drama.