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Tag Archives: Akira Kurosawa
The Hidden Fortress AKA Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
The story follows two greedy peasants in feudal Japan, Tahei and Matashichi Read More »
Red Beard AKA Akahige (1965) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide Read More »
The Most Beautiful AKA Ichiban utsukushiku (1944) Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, Sôji Kiyokawa, Ichirô Sugai
During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests Read More »
Dodes’ka-den AKA Dodesukaden (1970) Akira Kurosawa, Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura
An anthology of overlapping vignettes exploring the lives of a variety of characters who happen to live Read More »
Judo Saga AKA Sugata Sanshirô (1943) Akira Kurosawa, Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. Read More »
Drunken Angel (1948) Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto
After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. Read More »
One Wonderful Sunday (1947) Akira Kurosawa, Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. Read More »
The Quiet Duel (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Drama
In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada. Read More »
The Lower Depths (1957) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Drama
In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff Read More »
Rhapsody in August (1991) Akira Kurosawa, Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Drama
An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. Read More »
High And Low / Tengoku to jigoku (1963) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Crime, Mystery, Drama
Nora Inu / Stray Dog (1949) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Read More »
Yôjinbô / Yojimbo (1961) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai, Action, Drama, Thriller
Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. Read More »
Ikimono no kiroku / I Live in Fear (1955) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Drama
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Read More »