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A ranking of all thirty films directed by Akira Kurosawa, presented in order of best to worst. 1. Seven Samurai (1954) Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama. Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
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- The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945) Denjiro Okochi steals the show in this highly entertaining period film. Okochi plays the leader of a group of samurai who disguise themselves as monks in order to sneak their lord through enemy lines.
- The Most Beautiful (1944) By 1944, it was apparent Japan would lose World War II. Despite facing imminent defeat, Japanese filmmakers were encouraged to make “spiritist” films: movies showing ordinary civilians dedicated to the national cause.
- Sanjuro (1962) A clever and amusing follow-up to Kurosawa’s previous film, Yojimbo (1961). In the original, Toshiro Mifune’s wisecracking samurai pitted two imbecilic gangs against one another to wipe them both out; here, he takes a side, trying to help besieged (rather, naive) people take a stand against their persecutors.
- Scandal (1950) Even lesser Kurosawa films tend to have fascinating components and scenes of tremendous power. Scandal, a critique of yellow journalism in postwar Japan, isn’t quite as searing as its director intended, yet it still has much to offer through its plethora of intriguing characters — most notably a weak-willed lawyer played by that wonderful actor Takashi Shimura.
- Ikiru. To be the greatest movie ever directed by Akira Kurosawa also means being one of the greatest movies ever made. Such words may seem like hollow hyperbole, but in the case of "Ikiru," it's appropriate.
- Ran. When plays are adapted for film, a common complaint is that these adaptations never feel big enough. Some just seem like they're recorded performances of stage plays.
- Seven Samurai. Trying to write something new about "Seven Samurai" feels like as much of a fool's errand as finding a bad performance from Takashi Shimura.
- Drunken Angel. One of the many striking visual details in "Drunken Angel" is a sump located in the village that Dr. Sanada (Takashi Shimura) calls home.
- 10 Dersu Uzala
- 9 The Hidden Fortress
- 8 Red Beard
- 7 Throne of Blood
- 6 High and Low
- 5 Ran
- 4 Ikiru
- 3 Yojimbo
- 2 Rashomon
- 1 Seven Samurai
An Explorer Venturing To Siberia And Starts An Unlikely Friendship
Kurosawa only made five movies after the little-known Dersu Uzala, winner of the 1976 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The story follows the title character, a trapper sent by Russian armed forces to explore the uncharted Sikhote-Alin region of Siberia. Along the way, Dersu (Maksim Munzuk) forges an unlikely friendship with a grizzled hunter named Arsenev (Yuriy Solomon). Made toward the twilight of his illustrious career, Dersu Azalais Kurosawa at his most contemplative and soul...
Two Peasants Must Escort A Princess Through Dangerous Lands
Hidden Fortress bears so many similarities to George Lucas' Star Wars that some have suggested the Hollywood movie ripped off the Japanese original.The Hidden Fortresstracks two peasants in Feudal Japan who are ordered to escort a princess and a general through a perilous territory as enemies close in. Driven by their greed for gold as a reward, the two peasants have no clue how important their charges are, which leads to an intense battle of wits and weaponry, betrayal, and redemption. Haile...
A Stern Doctor Begins Mentoring A Young Intern
In his final collaboration with Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa tells one of his most relatable human tales inRed Beard,the three-hour magnum opus character study. The story follows Kyojo Niide (Mifune), an irascible doctor in a small Japanese town who forges a personal and professional bond with his new medical trainee, Dr. Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama). As Kurosawa's final black and white film, Red Beard marks the end of an era for the master storyteller, who would go on to direct nine more movies over t...
A Loose Adaptation Of MacBeth Set In Feudal Japan
Throne of Blood is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbethset in Feudal Japan. Toshiro Mifune stars as a grizzled war general named Washizu who goes to treacherous lengths to turn his wife's vision to become the top ruler into fruition. All of Shakespeare's hefty themes of tragic betrayal, craven ambition, and inevitable vengeance are on display. The eerie labyrinthine forest that serves as the major setting is among the movie's most memorable and unsettling. The combination of Sh...
A Businessman Faces A Moral Conundrum Following A Kidnapping
A perfect crime story and character study told in three precise acts, High and Low shows that Akira Kurosawa is as effective at modern storytelling as he is with period pieces.The moral quandary concerns Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune), a top executive at the Yokohoma shoe company, who is about to close an important business deal. However, when his son is kidnapped, he agrees to use the money to pay for the ransom, only to realize it was his son's friend who was kidnapped. Gondo is left in an im...
Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear, Ranis one of Kurosawa's most personal passion projects. The story concerns the aging warlord and land baron Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai). Hidetora bestows the imperial power on his three sons, completely blindsided by their cruel corruption, deadly deceit, and craven betrayal. Ran surprisingly ma...
Ikiruis arguably the most emotionally resonant of Akira Kurosawa's movies. Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) is a career social worker who is suddenly diagnosed with late-stage cancer, which forces him to take stock of his life, find existential meaning, and press on in the face of unfathomable fear. Given less than one year to live, what makes the ...
A Wandering Swordsman Ignites A War Between Rival Gangsters
While Toshiro Mifune would reprise his now-iconic role of Sanjuro one year later, and 1961's Yojimbo reigns supreme as one of the best Akira Kurosawa movies ever made. Yojimbo(which translates to "Bodyguard") refers to the wily nomadic samurai who manipulates two ruthless gangsters at odds with each other in 19th-century Japan. One of Kurosawa's biggest commercial hits in Japan, Yojimbo influenced several other beloved movies, including Sergio Leonne'sA Fistful of Dollars. Violent, philosophi...
The Same Crime Is Retold From Various Perspectives
Notorious for shifting character perspectives and retelling the same story events from multiple points of view, Rashomon is among Kurosawa's most inventive and oft-imitated masterworks. Adhering to the old adage that there are three sides to every story, few movies explore the veracity of the he-said-she-said dynamic likeRashomon. When a bride is brutally assaulted and her husband murdered in an attempt to protect her, all involved are forced to testify before the court. Each account of the b...
A Band Of Samurai Protect A Small Village
Famously remade as The Magnificent Seven in 1960, the story of a 16th-century Japanese village marauded by violent bandits avenged by seven sword-swinging samurai is deeply ingrained in storytelling mythology. With visceral action and compelling characters, Seven Samuraiis Kurosawa at his sharpest. The basic premise of the story does not do justice to the landmark filmmaking achievement of Kurosawa's singular style Using multiple cameras for the first time in his career, the film defined mode...
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- No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) Inspired by several real-life incidents, No Regrets for Our Youth is an intelligent and balanced drama about wavering ideologies and personal allegiances set between 1933-46, the years of imperial Japan’s increasing militarisation through to its wartime defeat.
- Scandal (1950) The first of 2 films Kurosawa made for the Shochiku studio (alongside the Dostoevsky adaptation The Idiot in 1951), this punchy social drama takes a righteous swipe at the gutter press, as Toshiro Mifune’s up-and-coming painter is snapped by the paparazzi while sitting on a hotel balcony with a famous singer (played by Yoshiko Yamaguchi), the photo inspiring a fabricated story in a popular gossip magazine.
- Rashomon (1950) The film that launched Kurosawa’s name outside his homeland (and those of its stars Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo), Rashomon’s Golden Lion Award at Venice in 1951 awakened a postwar generation of international festival and arthouse audiences to the manifold pleasures of Japanese cinema.
- Ikiru (1952) The story of an undistinguished, time-serving civil servant who, upon learning he has stomach cancer, channels his energies into one final positive act, building a children’s playground in a disease-ridden slum quarter, is truly heart-rending stuff.
Feb 15, 2024 · The best of the best. Image by Federico Napoli. Akira Kurosawa is arguably the most acclaimed and widely recognized Japanese filmmaker in cinema history. He received a single nomination for...
