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Akira Kurosawa - what members say


  • Seven Samurai
  • Seven Samurai review by A customer from Essex
    Rated - 4 stars The Shogun of the big screen 20 September 2003
    ...Akira Kurosawa's magnificent film combines an insightful meditation on the strategies of war with an equally brilliant examination of what drives people in their struggles to...  
  • Yojimbo
  • Yojimbo review by Nick from England
    Rated - 4 stars Just another masterful movie from the master of masterful movies 27 September 2004
    ...Akira Kurosawa's tribute to the western is a marvelous piece of cinema. Toshir? Mifune stars as a ronin (samurai without a master) that goes to a small town, which is divided...  
  • Rashomon
  • Rashomon review by Mark Adams from Manchester, England
    Rated - 4 stars Akira Kurosawa Does It Again 14 January 2005
    ... a clever representation of the psyches and egos of four very different people. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune are both, as usual, on fine form. ...  

Akira Kurosawa - filmography


  • Madadayo on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Tatsuo Matsumura,  Kydko Kagawa,  Hisashi Igawa
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an air raid, when he left to become a writer and has to live in a hut. His mood has hardly changed, not by the change nor by time. Every year his students ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (60%)
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  • Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
    Starring: Akira Terao,  Mitsuko Baisho,  Toshie Negishi
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: TBC
    A Japanese legend... Living dolls in a peach orchard... A deadly snow fairy... A haunted war survivor... Van Gogh painting crows... A terrifying nuclear disaster... Miserly ogres... And the village of the watermills... Eight visions of breathtaking beauty. Eight powerful moments revealing human nature.
    Rate this: 3.5 (69%)
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  • Ran (2 discs) on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Mieko Harada,  Akira Terao
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 15
    For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday....
    Rate this: 3.5 (75%)
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  • Ran - HD DVD Version (1985)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Mieko Harada,  Akira Terao
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 18
    For his 27th film, the "sensei" of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as "chaos" or "turmoil," is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday....
    Rate this: 4.0 (77%)
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  • Kagemusha on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Kenichi Hagiwara,  Takashi Shimura
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    In this dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief named Kagemusha (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda (also Nakadai). The warlord has been fighting two other leaders for control of 16th-century Japan and impersonators often take ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (74%)
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  • Dersu Uzala on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Yuri Solomin,  Maksim Munzuk,  Svetlana Danilchenko
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: U
    Kurosawa's remarkable film - his only produced and financed outside of Japan - is an extraordinary tale of friendship and survival, based on the memoirs of Russian explorer Vladimir Arseniev. In the harsh environs of the Siberian frontier, an expedition led by Arseniev encounters the nomadic Goldi ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (76%)
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  • Dodesukaden (1970)
    Starring: Yoshitaka Zushi,  Kin Sugai,  Toshiyuki Tonomura
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: TBC
    Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, a retarded boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who support their parents by scrounging or by tedious and ill-paying endeavours; schemers who plot or dream of escaping the ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (54%)
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  • Red Beard on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Yuzo Kayama
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 15
    The final collaboration between Kurosawa and Mifune, RED BEARD tells the story of a doctor in a rural clinic in late-19th century Japan. He teaches his new intern the meaning of responsibilty through a master-pupil relationship, a constantly recurring theme in Kurosawa's work.
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  • High And Low on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Toshiro Mifune,  Kyoko Kagawa
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 12
    Based on KING'S RANSOM, a crime novel by Ed McBain, HIGH AND LOW stars Toshiro Mifune as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy, hardworking businessman. As Gondo plans a coup that will secure his position as the head of his Yokohama shoe company, he is contacted by a criminal who informs him that he's kidnapped ...
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  • Sanjuro on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Toshiro Mifune,  Masao Shimizu
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 12
    Due to the huge success of Kurosawa's 1961 epic YOJIMBO, he teamed up with Mifune a year later to make comedy of manners SANJURO. The plot concerns Sanjuro, a man fighting corruption in local government. The director parodies perfectly the conventions of Japanese period action movies and the final ...
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  • Yojimbo on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Eijiro Tono,  Seisaburo Kawazu
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    In director Akira Kurosawa's comedic YOJIMBO, a masterless samurai, Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), wanders into a town divided by two warring clans. After displaying his formidable swordsmanship before both clans in a brawl with street thugs, Sanjuro offers his services to the highest bidder. When one ...
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  • Hidden Fortress on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Misa Uehara,  Minoru Chiaki
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    During a civil war in 16th-century feudal Japan, two cowardly farmers (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) stumble upon Makabe (Toshiro Mifune), a fierce army general. Escaping from hostile territory, General Makabe embarks on a mission to rescue both Yukihime (Misa Uehara), the willfull princess ...
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  • Throne Of Blood on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Isuzu Yamada,  Minoru Chiaki
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    Akira Kurosawa's stunning reconception of Shakespeare's MACBETH is a dark samurai drama, full of powerful and haunting images. Set in feudal Japan, the film follows the path of an ambitious warlord (Toshiro Mifune) who fulfills a prophecy stating that he will become emperor. However, he achieves ...
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  • Seven Samurai on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Takashi Shimura,  Toshiro Mifune,  Yoshio Inaba
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when their crops are harvested, the thugs will attack, so four men go to town in hopes of employing samurai to ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (71%)
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  • Ikiru on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Takashi Shimura,  Nobuo Kaneko,  Miki Odagiri
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 12
    Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing of significance. After discovering he is suffering from a terminal illness, Kanji becomes intensely self-absorbed until he finds a mission to build a ...
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  • Rashomon on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Masayuki Mori,  Machiko Kyo
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: 12
    Akira Kurosawa's highly acclaimed film, set in feudal Japan, presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters--a bandit (Toshiro Mifune), a woman (Machiko Kyo), her husband (Masayuki Mori), and a woodcutter (Takashi Shimura). Only two ...
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  • Scandal on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Shirley Yamaguchi,  Noriko Sengoku
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    When a young painter meets up by chance with a popular singer, he is unaware that the paparazzi are following them. When a magazine runs a story exposing their 'secret romance', the painter battles to restore his honour.
    Rate this: 3.5 (65%)
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  • Stray Dog on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Takashi Shimura,  Keiko Awaji
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    The setting for this Akira Kurosawa film noir is Tokyo in the late 1940s, its streets blasted by war and its economy in collapse. When Murakami, a young detective (Toshiro Mifune, in one of his earliest roles), loses his gun to a thief, he must descend into a hell teeming with shady characters to ...
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Akira Kurosawa - downloads


  • Kagemusha for Download (1980)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Kenichi Hagiwara,  Takashi Shimura
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: PG
    Rent from: £2.99
    Run time: 153 minutes
    In this dazzling epic from Akira Kurosawa, a petty thief named Kagemusha (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets saved from a death sentence because he resembles the warlord Shingen Takeda (also Nakadai). The warlord has been fighting two other leaders for control of 16th-century Japan and impersonators often take ...
    Rate this: 4.0 (82%)
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Akira Kurosawa facts

5 most recent films


Rhapsody In August - 3.0 stars
Madadayo - 3.0 stars
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - 3.5 stars
Ran - 3.5 stars
Ran - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Dersu Uzala - 3.5 stars
Ikiru - 3.5 stars
Red Beard - 3.5 stars
Sanjuro - 3.5 stars
Ran - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Dodesukaden - 3.0 stars
The Silent Duel - 3.5 stars
Ran - HD DVD Version - 4.0 stars
Rhapsody In August - 3.0 stars
Madadayo - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Toshiro Mifune - 15 times - show films
Takashi Shimura - 12 times - show films
Tatsuya Nakadai - 6 times - show films
Minoru Chiaki - 4 times - show films
Daisuke Ryu - 4 times - show films