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Based on Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's legendary martial-arts epic SEVEN SAMURAI, the action-packed anime series SAMURAI 7 offers an anachronistic spin on the film's famous parable of vigilante justice. This time around, the story takes place in a futuristic feudal society ravaged by years of brutal warfare, where the lawless bandits terrorizing the rural countryside are a terrifying mutant amalgam of man and machine. One particularly poverty-stricken village decides to battle the mechanical...

The creator of such timeless masterpieces as Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and High and Low, Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential and beloved filmmakers who ever lived—and for many the greatest artist the medium has known. Now, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Criterion Collection is proud to present this deluxe box set celebrating his astonishing career. Featuring twenty-five of the films he made over the course of his fifty years in movies—from samurai epics...

Sanshiro Sugata may be Akira Kurosawa's official debut film as a director, but one would never know it from the masterful way the young director dominates the film. Sanshiro's screenplay features many elements that would soon become cliches in martial arts movies (and which, truth be told, were perhaps not entirely fresh even in 1943), but Kurosawa's full-on, committed treatment of them makes them seem almost new and emphasizes again that often the treatment of material is more important than the...

Starring: Chieko Nakakita, Denjiro Okochi, Eijiro Tono, Ichiro Sugai, Isao Numasaki, Isuzu Yamada, Junzaburo Ban, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiju Kobayashi, Kyoko Kagawa, Machiko Kyo, Masao Shimizu, Masayuki Mori, Midori Ariyama, Misa Vehara, Nobuo Kaneko, Reiko Dan, Setsuko Hara, Suho Nishina, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuo Matsumura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiro Mifune, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yikiko Todoroki, Yoshitaka Zushi, Yuzo Kayama

In this classic film noir, set in postwar Japan, Toshirô Mifune plays Matsunaga, a tough small-time gangster who takes a bullet during a fight in the slums of Tokyo. He makes his way to the office of Sanada (Takashi Shimura), a disillusioned yet passionate doctor, who treats the wound and, in the process, discovers Matsunaga has an even bigger ailment--tuberculosis. As Sanada hounds Matsunaga into dealing with his disease, the alcoholic physician and the arrogant thug form an uneasy friendship. Meanwhile...

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Description Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) is one of the most well respected and influential directors of all time. In Hollywood's hands SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) was remade as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, YOJIMBO (1961) started the entire Spaghetti Western genre when remade as A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) and THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958) became the inspiration for the first STAR WARS (1977). Here for the first time in Australia is a collection of Kurosawa's early Samurai Classics that...

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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 of world...

Audio commentaries by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince. Documentaries on the making of Yojimbo and Sanjuro, created as part of the toho masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create. Theatrical teasers and trailers. Stills galleries of behind-the-scenes photos. Plus: booklet featuring essays by film writers Alexander Sesonske and Michael Sragow and comments from Kurosawa and members of his cast and crews.

Release Date: 2009-12-08, Rating: Unrated

Rhapsody in August on DVD Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa follows up on his phantasmorgic Dreams with this delicate tale about war and memory. The film centers on Kane (Sachiko Murase) a grandmother who lives on her traditional farm in the hills near Nagasaki. Her husband and a number of siblings died in the 1945 atomic bombing of the city and memories of that event are never far from her mind. She learns that her elder brother, who went to Hawaii to seek his fortune in pineapples, is on his deathbed...

The most popular Japanese moviemaker of all time, Akira Kurosawa began his career by delving into the state of his nation immediately following World War II, with visual poetry and direct emotion. Amid Japan's economic collapse, moral waywardness, and American occupation, Kurosawa managed to find humor and redemption existing alongside despair and anxiety. In these five films, which range from the whimsically Capraesque to the icily Dostoyevskian, from political epics to courtroom potboilers, Kurosawa...

Summary: One of the more obscure early finds in master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre, this earnest 1946 film explores the nature of politics and passion. The plot centers around the daughter (Setsuko Hara) of an academic as she is thrust into the political and social turmoil of the years leading into the Second World War. As the fascists rise to power she sees her father stripped of his teaching position and her young lover arrested and executed as her other love interest goes to work for the...

Availability: Usually ships in 5-10 days. Region Code: 1. UPC: 037429175828. Catalog #: DV1191662. Languages: Japanese Dolby Digital Mono (Primary) , English Subtitles , English Subtitles. Aspect Ratio: 1.33 Original Aspect Ratio. Extras: Trailers. Features:. Audio commentary: by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck. New essay by Stephen Prince. Two subtitle translations, the second utilizing Jacobean diction. Notes on subtitling included.

Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) leaves his job of thirty years without a word to find meaning in the year he has left to live. He is completely alone in the world -- his wife is dead, his son is practically estranged, and his co-workers (the people with whom he has more contact than any others) are little more than strangers...

The film that helped inspire the western classic "A Fistful of Dollars," Akira Kurosawa's sly commentary on the action movie genre follows a war-weary samurai (Toshiro Mifune) who becomes the champion ... more