Search results
The Hidden Fortress ( Japanese: 隠し砦の三悪人, Hepburn: Kakushi Toride no San Akunin, lit. 'The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress') is a 1958 Japanese jidaigeki [5] adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It tells the story of two peasants who agree to escort a man and a woman across enemy ...
The Hidden Fortress: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Susumu Fujita. Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
- (42K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1960-10-06
Oct 26, 2020 · The Hidden Fortress. The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends.
- 138 min
- 26.1K
- Shadows of the Dark
A feudal adventure told from an eccentric perspective, The Hidden Fortress is among Akira Kurosawa's most purely enjoyable epics. Japanese peasants Matashichi (Kamatari Fujiwara) and Tahei (Minoru ...
- (51)
- Toshiro Mifune
- Akira Kurosawa
- Toho Company Ltd.
The Hidden Fortress. A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving ...
- General Rokurota Makabe
Mar 18, 2014 · The Hidden Fortress shares the humanist ideology of so much Japanese cinema of the 1950s, accommodating democratic values of social equality to a renewed history of the nation. A heroic montage of Yuki’s face superimposed on the crescent-moon flag of her clan as she surveys the landscape is legible as a nostalgic longing for an imaginary nation.
The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi Toride no Sanakunin, 1958) marks an important point in director Akira Kurosawa's career, and it represents a noteworthy twist on established Japanese storytelling traditions, but after a major re-release in 1984, the film has become mostly known in America as an influence on George Lucas's Star Wars (1977).
People also ask
Is the Hidden Fortress a good movie?
Why is the Hidden Fortress important?
Is the Hidden Fortress a jidaigeki movie?
What is the story of the three villains of the Hidden Fortress?