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Akira Kurosawa
Akir Kurosawa Born 23/10/1910 Died 06/09/1998 Tokyo Japan
Japanese director of 32 films between 1943 and 1993, many of which have influenced Western Film makers. The Seven Samurai (1954) was admired by John Sturges who acknoledged it's influence on The Magnificent Seven. The Westerns of Sergione Leone show the influence of Yojimbo (1961) while aspects of the Hidden Fortress can be seen in the Star Wars Movies.
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Rhapsody In August
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Richard Gere, Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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The story reflects on the economic wars between the United States and Japan and the aftermath of the bombing of Nagasaki, by focusing on three generations of two related families: an American family of pineapple growers in Hawaii and a Japanese family living outside Nagasaki.
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Madadayo
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Tatsuo Matsumura, Kydko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
(1990)
Starring: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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.
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Ran
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada, Akira Terao
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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...read more »
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Ran - BLU-RAY Version
(1985)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada, Akira Terao
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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...read more »
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Ran - HD DVD Version
(1985)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mieko Harada, Akira Terao
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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...read more »
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Kagemusha
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kenichi Hagiwara, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Dersu Uzala
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Yuri Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Svetlana Danilchenko
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Dodesukaden
(1970)
Starring: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Red Beard
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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
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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 ..read more »
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Sanjuro
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Masao Shimizu
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Yojimbo
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Seisaburo Kawazu
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Hidden Fortress
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Throne Of Blood
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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I Live In Fear
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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A man who lives in Tokyo, who attempts to move his family to Brazil because of concerns about a nuclear holocaust. But his family think differently and try and get him committed. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
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Seven Samurai
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Ikiru
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Miki Odagiri
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Scandal
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Noriko Sengoku
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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.
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Rashomon
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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Stray Dog
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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 ..read more »
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The Idiot
on DVD
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Retelling of Fydor Dostoyevsky's novel, where the action is transferred from Russia to Northern Japan. An unstable war criminal acquitted of charges gets involved with two women...
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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...
