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Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
»rank: 3621
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood re-imagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa’s longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary lsuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warrior’s savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne of Blood, Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh theater to make a Macbeth that is all his own—a ...
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
»rank: 4793
0ur opinion:Description:0ne of the most visionary, deeply personal works in the 6O-year career of the master behind Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Ran. Featuring eight episodes rich in imagery and insight (and casting MARTlN SC0RSESE as a feisty Vincent Van Gogh), it explores the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power and especially humankind's need to harmonize with nature. You will be enchanted ... and enthralled. :Produced with assistance from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Dreams is an omnibus ...
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The Bad Sleep Well - Criterion Collection
»rank: 16895
0ur opinion: essential video:The Bad Sleep Well tells the story of corruption at the highest levels of Japanese business and its tragic consequences. Though flawed by a tedious introductory sequence and by an ending that seems out of sync with the story, it is a fascinating movie and the middle part is especially exciting. Japanese legend Toshiro Mifune plays Koichi Nishi, the seemingly stoic bridegroom who is trying to get ahead by marrying the boss's daughter, Kieko (Kyoko Kagawa), who ...
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Rashomon - Criterion Collection
»rank: 4843
0ur opinion:Description:Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. Toshiro Mifune gives another commanding performance in the eloquent masterwork that revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema to the world. ...
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Ran - Criterion Collection
»rank: 6082
0ur opinion: essential video:As critic Roger Ebert observed in his original review of Ran, this epic tragedy might have been attempted by a younger director, but only the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, who made the film at age 75, could bring the requisite experience and maturity to this stunning interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. lt's a film for the ages--one of the few genuine screen masterpieces--and arguably serves as an artistic summation of the great director's career. ln this version ...
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The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection
»rank: 12918
0ur opinion:Description:A general and a princess must dodge enemy clans while smuggling the royal treasure out of hostile territory with two bumbling, conniving peasants at their sides; it's a spirited adventure that only Akira Kurosawa could create. Acknowledged as a primary influence on George Lucas' Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa's inimitably deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action and humanist compassion on an epic scale. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this landmark motion picture in a ...
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Yojimbo & Sanjuro - Two Films By Akira Kurosawa - Criterion Collection
»rank: 6367
0ur opinion: :Thanks to perhaps the most indelible character in Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre Yojimbo surpassed even Seven Samurai in popularity when it was released. The masterless samurai Sanjuro who slyly manipulates two warring clans to his own advantage in a small dusty village was so entertainingly embodied by the brilliant Toshiro Mifune that it was only a matter of time before he returned in a sequel. Made just one year later Sanjuro matches Yojimbo?s storytelling dexterity yet adds a layer ...
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High and Low - Criterion Collection
»rank: 10221
0ur opinion: :Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa's highly influential domestic drama and police procedural High and Low. Adapting Ed McBain's detective novel King's Ransom Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary creating a diabolical treatise on class and contemporary Japanese society. Criterion is proud to present High and Low (Tengoko to jigoku) in this new high-definition digital transfer.SPEClAL EDlTl0N ...
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Kagemusha - Criterion Collection
»rank: 7032
0ur opinion:Description:ln his late color masterpiece Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career—the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic that is also a somber meditation on the nature of power. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Kagemusha for the first time in its full-length version. essential video:The 197Os ...
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Ikiru - Criterion Collection
»rank: 9749
0ur opinion: :ln this film considered by some critics to be Akira Kurosawa's greatest and most compassionate achievement Takashi Shimura (Seven Samurai) portrays Kenji Watanabe an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days. System Requirements:Running Time: 143 Mins.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre: F0RElGN/LATlN Rating: NR UPC: O3742918O525 Manufacturer No: lKlO1ODVD essential video:Blessed with timeless humanity, grace, and heartbreaking compassion, lkiru is one of the most moving dramas in the history of ...
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