Stray Dog
 Amazon.com Essential Video: A classic crime film steeped in the vivid environs of postwar Tokyo, Stray Dog is arguably Akira Kurosawa's finest film preceding the international success of Rashomon. A classic theme--the identification between criminal and [... more]
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Ikiru (Criterion Collection) (1952) (2 Discs)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Blessed with timeless humanity, grace, and heartbreaking compassion, Ikiru is one of the most moving dramas in the history of film. Legendary director Akira Kurosawa is best remembered for his samurai epics, but this [... more]
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Sanjuro (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Akira Kurosawa's sequel to Yojimbo is more lighthearted and less cynical, a rousing adventure with Toshirô Mifune reprising his role as the scruffy mercenary who becomes an unlikely big brother to a troupe of nine naive samurai. [... more]
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Scandal
Actor: Bokuzen Hidari Actor: Yoko Katsuragi Actor: Kuninori Kodo Actor: Toshiro Mifune Actor: Eitaro Ozawa Binding: DVD Director: Akira Kurosawa EAN: 4895033730675 Format: Import Format: Dubbed Format: NTSC Format: Subtitled Release Date: 2003-07-15 [... more]
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The Bad Sleep Well (Criterion Collection)
Amazon.com 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, [... more]
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams [Subtitled]
From Amazon.com: Produced with assistance from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, Dreams is an omnibus of eight short stories and parables that spell enchantment at every turn. The opening story, "Sun Under the Rain," emerges from director [... more]
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High and Low (Widescreen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Although best known for his samurai classics, Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa proved himself equally adept at contemporary dramas and thrillers, and 1962's High and Low offers a powerful showcase for Kurosawa's [... more]
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The Lower Depths (1957) (Criterion Collection)
Amazon.com Essential Video: In faithfully adapting Maxim Gorky's classic play The Lower Depths, Akira Kurosawa incorporated themes from several of his better-known films. Transplanted from the play's Russian setting to Japan's Edo (pre-Tokyo) period, the [... more]
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Throne Of Blood
From Amazon.co.uk: A champion of illumination and experimental shading, Kurosawa brings his unerring eye for indelible images to Shakespeare in this 1957 adaptation of Macbeth. By changing the locale from Birnam Wood to 16th-century Japan, Kurosawa makes [... more]
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Yojimbo & Sanjuro: Two Films By Akira Kurosawa ...
The nameless samurai: Akira Kurosawa made the best samurai movies in cinematic history, since he mixed in other elements (spaghetti westerns!) and crafted the action around the stories. And the two-movie pack of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" [... more]
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Madadayo
From Amazon.com: Akira Kurosawa was 83 years old when he made this, his serenely glorious final film. Kurosawa's eyesight was failing, so Madadayo would be the master's farewell to filmmaking, and one can hardly imagine a more lovely and loving way to [... more]
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Ran
Amazon.com 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 [... more]
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