Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an...
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1985
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Japanese screen legend Toshiro Mifune bids farewell to the character he made famous in this tale of death and deception also...
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1979
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Dodes'ka-Den (aka Dodesukaden) was Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's first project since Red Beard (1965), and his first...
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1970
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This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American...
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1970
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In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping...
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1965
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1964
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Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo,...
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1962
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or...
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1962
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Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is...
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1961
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In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old...
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1960
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1958
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Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his...
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1957
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Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean...
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1957
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Friendly aliens from the planet Paira land on Earth to help us destroy a flaming planet about to collide with us, disguising...
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1956
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When an elderly, wealthy man decides that nuclear holocaust is eminent in his country, he decides to move his family to...
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1955
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Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film...
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1954
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1953
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Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon...
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1952
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