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The following is a list of works, both in film and other media, for which the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa made some documented creative contribution. This includes a complete list of films with which he was involved (including the films on which he worked as assistant director before becoming a full director ), as well as his little-known ...
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- 'Seven Samurai' (1954) Letterboxd Rating: 4.5/5. A revolutionary action epic that's aged like wine in the nearly 70 years since its release, Seven Samurai is an undeniable classic.
- 'High and Low' (1963) Letterboxd Rating: 4.5/5. Few thrillers that are as old as High and Low hold up and remain exciting the same way High and Low does.
- 'Ikiru' (1952) Letterboxd Rating: 4.4/5. Ikiru is likely Akira Kurosawa's most bittersweet and moving film. It has a simple story that delivers a wide array of emotions, centering on a bureaucrat whose perspective on life is dramatically changed when his doctor tells him he's terminally ill and won't have long to live.
- 'Ran' (1985) Letterboxd Rating: 4.4/5. While Throne of Blood saw Akira Kurosawa adapting Macbeth and The Bad Sleep Well (1960) saw him loosely adapting Hamlet, with 1985's Ran, the great director set his sights on Shakespeare's play King Lear.
- 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.
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Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, including a number of highly regarded (and often adapted) films, such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961) and High and Low (1963).
2. Sanshiro Sugata. 1943 1h 19m Not Rated. 6.7 (5.6K) Rate. Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life. Director Akira Kurosawa Stars Denjirô Ôkôchi Susumu Fujita Yukiko Todoroki. aka Judo Saga.
Jul 27, 2022 · These are the 11 movies that made Akira Kurosawa a legend. 11. Rashomon. Janus Films. Kurosawa always had a gift for filming the organic world. Rolling hills, fields of grass, and vast skies ...
This deluxe, linen-bound collector’s set includes twenty-five films and an illustrated book featuring an introduction and notes on each of the films by Stephen Prince (The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa) and a remembrance by Donald Richie (The Films of Akira Kurosawa).
