O cinema de Kurosawa: a arte total

This work intends to present some reasons to considering Akira Kurosawa s movies as works-of-art The antithesis is given by arguments from Adomo, Horkheimer and other philosophers of the so called Frankfurt School, who wrote first against moviemaking industryand later against its artistic possibilities. The synthesis aims to clarifyingby using Kurosawa as an examplethe possibility of moviemaking to fullfill the conception of what Richard Wagner called “a total art”.