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1	Seven Samurai (1954) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Kato, Ko (Isao) Kimura Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers begs him to defend their terrorized village from bandits. ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $14.99!
2	Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki, Chishu Ryu, Mieko Harada Following up on his critically acclaimed, blood-splattered epic Ran, master director Akira Kurosawa looks inward with this collection of eight brightly colored dreams. The first section centers on a young boy (Mitsunori Izaki), who witnesses a forest wedding procession of fox spirits in spite of his mother's (Mitsuko Baisho) warning. The second ... see all copies from $4.29! new only from $16.25!
3	Dersu Uzala (1975) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Maxim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Vladimir Kremena, Alexandr Pyatkov, Dima Korshikov A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming the first Russian/Japanese co-production. Co-scripted and directed by Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian ... see all copies from $7.77! new only from $22.90!
4	Ikiru (1952) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki, Miki Odagiri, Makoto Kobori 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 ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95!
5	Rashomon (1951) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The priest and the woodcutter, each looking stricken, discuss the trial of a notorious bandit for rape and murder. As the retelling of the trial ... see all copies from $2.04! new only from $29.90!
6	Kagemusha (1980) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Kota Yui, Shuji Otake Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa's reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ever, he found considerable difficulty securing backing for his ambitious projects. Unsure he would be able to film it, the director, an ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.59!
7	Drunken Angel (1948) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Chieko Nakakita Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered myself," he explained later. "It was my picture: I was doing it and no one else." Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor, running a fleabitten clinic in the slums of Tokyo. Shimura tries to pull himself together long ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $31.47!
8	Ran (1985) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of his treacherous sons (Akira Terao and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99!
9	Yojimbo (1961) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isuzu Yamada, Seizaburo Kawazu, Daisuke Kato, Hiroshi Tachikawa Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, but Mifune is hungry and impoverished, so he agrees to work as bodyguard (or Yojimbo) for a silk merchant (Kamatari Fujiwara) against a sake merchant (Takashi Shimura). He then pretends to go to work for the ... see all copies from $4.40! new only from $14.99!
10	The Hidden Fortress (1958) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Kamatari Fujiwara, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge cache of gold. Mifune is also desirous of freeing ... see all copies from $2.94! new only from $2.94!
11 view cover	Throne of Blood (1957) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Takamaru Sasaki Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welles's more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a more personal stamp on his version by translating the events and characters to historical Japan. The equivalent of the tragic Scottish lord ... see all copies from $12.29! new only from $31.90!
12 view cover	Sanjuro (1962) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or vice-versa, this kinetic drama by acclaimed Akira Kurosawa features the hero Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), one of many samurai whose once traditional positions were fast disappearing. In this tale of false perceptions and truth ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.28!
13 view cover	High and Low (1962) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return -- an amount so huge that it will utterly bankrupt ... see all copies from $2.68! new only from $32.81!
14 view cover	Rhapsody in August (1991) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Richard Gere, Sachiko Murase, Mitsunori Isaki, Hidetaka Yoshioka 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.87!
15 view cover	Stray Dog (1949) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Ko (Isao) Kimura Akira Kurosawa directs the black-and-white 1949 film noir Nora Inu (released in the U.S. in 1963 as Stray Dog). In his third film with Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune plays young police detective Murakami. One summer day on a crowded bus in Tokyo, his gun is stolen by a pickpocket. Rather than face the shame of reporting his gun missing, he chooses to go ... see all copies from $23.00! new only from $31.77!
16 view cover	Sanshiro Sugata (1943) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryonosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kono This first effort by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was originally released as Sanshiro Sugata . The film, made under reasonably smooth conditions despite the war, is based on a best-selling novel about the creation of Judo. Most of the film explores the relationship between the creator of this form of self-defense and his faithful protege. In ... see all copies from $14.76!
17 view cover	Madadayo (1993) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Tatsuo Matsumara, Kyoko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa Akira Kurosawa's swansong is a delicate, sentimental portrait of his long avowed hero, educator and literary figure Hyakken Uchida. At the film's opening, Uchida -- a professor of German literature at a military school where he is beloved for his wisdom and his impish humor -- is delivering his final lecture to his adoring students. Near the end ... see all copies from $1.99!
18 view cover	The Bad Sleep Well (1960) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for revenge in the death of his father. Koichi is a private ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $24.47!
19 view cover	The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Hanshiro Iwai, Susumu Fujita, Kenichi Enomoto, Denjiro Okochi Akira Kurosawa's Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail was put together at the last minute when Kurosawa's plan to direct a costume picture called Doko Kono Yari fell through (the producer couldn't get any horses!) Utilizing the costumes, sets and actors already commissioned, Kurosawa spent one long evening writing a screenplay based on the old Kabuki ... see all copies from $15.99! new only from $15.99!
20 view cover	Red Beard (1965) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kyoko Kagawa, Miyuki Kuwano In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping both to marry the daughter of a wealthy man and to achieve affluence himself through his medical practice. He happens to visit the famed Koishikawa clinic for the indigent, which is run by the autocratic Dr. Kyojo Niide ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $33.16!
21 view cover	One Wonderful Sunday (1947) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa directs this romantic comedy about a pair of lovers struggling to have a pleasant Sunday outing. A young laborer named Yuzo (Isao Numazaki) and his fiancée, Masako (Chieko Nakakita), meet at the train station on their day off. With the weather beautiful and only a scant 35 yen in their pockets, the two first visit a model house, ... see all copies from $1.99!
22 view cover	Scandal (1950) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimura Released in Japan as Shubun, Scandal was the eleventh film directed by Akira Kurosawa (it was produced just prior to his more famous Rashomon). The director described it as a "protest" film about press journalism. The film sets forth the theory that the postwar Japanese press was too free in its insinuations, and that personal privacy had been ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $17.64!
23 view cover	The Idiot (1951) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled compassion for people after he moves in with friends of his family as he tries to help a young man ruined by the war and a woman hounded by a wealthy but cruel suitor. All the characters are victims of the war and its ... see all copies from $11.75! new only from $11.75!
24 view cover	The Lower Depths (1957) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyoko Kagawa, Bokuzen Hidari, Ganjiro Nakamura Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own country's Edo Period--which, like Gorky's 19th-century setting, was an era of great cultural advances, offset by the miseries of those who weren't in the aristocracy. Kurosawa's film concentrates on Toshiro Mifune, ... see all copies from $4.29! new only from $44.88!
25 view cover	The Quiet Duel (1949) more movies like this directed by Akira Kurosawa featuring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Noriko Sengoku, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita, Miki Sanjo A dedicated army surgeon finds his once-bright future suddenly obscured when he contracts syphilis while performing a life-saving operation in this early collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and Toshirô Mifune. Contaminated with a disease that was virtually incurable in 1940s Japan, Fujisaki returns home from the war to work presided ... see all copies from $12.74! new only from $12.74!

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