KUROSAWA (24 titles)

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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

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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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Seven Samurai

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• Seven Samurai on DVD (1954)
  Starring: Seiji Miyaguchi,  Minoru Chiaki,  Keiko Tsushi
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece tells the story of a group of 17th Century warriors recently detached from the powerful masters who once paid them. Veteran Samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) is the leader of the group who are hired by the residents of a village suffering at the hands of a marauding band ..read more »
  
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Ikiru

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• Ikiru on DVD (1952)
  Starring: Nobuo Kaneko,  Miki Odagiri,  Takashi Shimura
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  Akira Kurosawa's classic humanist tale of a dying man's discovery of a zest for life and desire to do some good after thirty years of dedicated work for the civil service. Takashi Shimura plays the civil servant Watanabe, Chief of the Citizen's Section of the Town Hall, who discovers he has only ..read more »
  
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Rashomon

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• Rashomon on DVD (1950)
  Starring: Machiko Kyo,  Toshiro Mifune,  Masayuki Mori
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  Set in feudal Japan, this film presents an intriguing tale of violent crime in the woods, told from the perspective of four different characters -- a bandit, a woman, her husband and a woodcutter. Only two things about the incident seem to be clear -- the woman was raped and her husband is now dead...read more »
  
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Throne Of Blood

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• Throne Of Blood on DVD (1957)
  Starring: Minoru Chiaki,  Isuzu Yamada,  Toshiro Mifune
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and characters to historical ..read more »
  
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Hidden Fortress

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• Hidden Fortress on DVD (1958)
  Starring: Minoru Chiaki,  Eiko Miyoshi,  Susumu Fujita
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge ..read more »
  
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Dersu Uzala

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• Dersu Uzala on DVD (1975)
  Starring: Svetlana Danilchenko,  Dmitri Korshikov,  Suimenkul Chokmorov
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming the first Russian/Japanese co-production. Co-scripted and directed by Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn ..read more »
  
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Stray Dog

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• Stray Dog on DVD (1949)
  Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Isao Kimura,  Takashi Shimura
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  When young detective Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) has his gun stolen, his desperate wish to retrieve it sends him deep into Tokyo's criminal underworld. Meanwhile the gun is passed from the pickpocket who stole it to a young gangster and is then used in the killing of an innocent woman. Murakami's ..read more »
  
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Red Beard

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• Red Beard on DVD (1965)
  Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Yuzo Kayama
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping both to marry the daughter of a wealthy man and to achieve affluence himself through his medical practice. He happens to visit the famed Koishikawa clinic for the indigent, ..read more »
  
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Kagemusha

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• Kagemusha on DVD (1980)
  Starring: Daisuke Ryu,  Kenichi Hagiwara,  Tsutomu Yamazaki
  Director: Akira Kurosawa
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  Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa's reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ever, he found considerable difficulty securing backing for his ambitious projects. Unsure ..read more »
  
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