Search results for "Akira Kurosawa"
Madadayo (1993)

Madadayo (1993)

Madadayo (1993)
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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…

Genre: Drama
Rhapsody in August (1991)

Rhapsody in August (1991)

Rhapsody in August (1991)
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The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the…

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Genre: Drama
Dreams (1990)

Dreams (1990)

Dreams (1990)
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A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Ran (1985)

Ran (1985)

Ran (1985)
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With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Dersu Uzala (1975)

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Dersu Uzala (1975)
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A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the…

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Sanjuro (1962)

Sanjuro (1962)

Sanjuro (1962)
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Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and sequel to “Yojimbo,” jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic…

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Yojimbo (1961)

Yojimbo (1961)

Yojimbo (1961)
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A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Seven Samurai (1954)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Seven Samurai (1954)
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A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach…

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Genre: Action, Drama
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1952)

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1952)

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1952)
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Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.

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