Movies: Akira Kurosawa

  • 1937
    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf

    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf (1937)

    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf

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    Story of a bandit king....

    Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf
  • 1942
    Currents of Youth

    Currents of Youth (1942)

    Currents of Youth

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    It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is ...

    Currents of Youth
  • 1938
    Subterranean Heat

    Subterranean Heat (1938)

    Subterranean Heat

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    Subterranean Heat
  • 1943
    World of Love

    World of Love (1943)

    World of Love

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    A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for them...

    World of Love
  • 1937
    Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

    Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait (1937)

    Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

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    1930s Japanese comedy....

    Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait
  • 1950
    Jiruba no Tetsu

    Jiruba no Tetsu (1950)

    Jiruba no Tetsu

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    Jiruba no Tetsu
  • 1969
    Searching For Kurosawa

    Searching For Kurosawa (1969)

    Searching For Kurosawa

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    Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades later. Now, with the rediscovered clips and Mitsuhiko’s own recollections, the film pieces together an intimate p...

    Searching For Kurosawa
  • 2005
    Image: Kurosawa's Continuity

    Image: Kurosawa's Continuity (2005)

    Image: Kurosawa's Continuity

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    A 43-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Akira Kurosawa's paintings and sketches....

    Image: Kurosawa's Continuity
  • 1948
    The Portrait

    The Portrait (1948)

    The Portrait

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    The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait....

    The Portrait
  • 2012
    The World of Kazuo Miyagawa

    The World of Kazuo Miyagawa (2012)

    The World of Kazuo Miyagawa

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    Renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa collaborated with a number of great Japanese filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Yasujiro Ozu. The following excerpts from the Japanese television documentary THE WORLD OF K...

    The World of Kazuo Miyagawa
  • 1945
    Bravo! Tebare Ishin

    Bravo! Tebare Ishin (1945)

    Bravo! Tebare Ishin

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    1945 Japanese movie...

    Bravo! Tebare Ishin
  • 1950
    Fencing Master

    Fencing Master (1950)

    Fencing Master

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    Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically....

    Fencing Master
  • 1951
    Beyond Love and Hate

    Beyond Love and Hate (1951)

    Beyond Love and Hate

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    A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth, but the police give chase and he mu...

    Beyond Love and Hate
  • 1936
    Enoken’s Ten Millions

    Enoken’s Ten Millions (1936)

    Enoken’s Ten Millions

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    Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song....

    Enoken’s Ten Millions
  • 1939
    Easy Alley

    Easy Alley (1939)

    Easy Alley

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    Easy Alley
  • 2020
    Dersu Uzala. Russian Dreams of Kurosawa

    Dersu Uzala. Russian Dreams of Kurosawa (2020)

    Dersu Uzala. Russian Dreams of Kurosawa

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    In 1971, the frustrated Akira Kurosawa made an unsuccessful attempt to cut his veins. His life was restored by the opportunity offered by Mosfilm: to make the first Soviet-Japanese collaborative film "Dersu Uzala". The documentary reflects the challe...

    Dersu Uzala. Russian Dreams of Kurosawa
  • 1936
    Tokyo Rhapsody

    Tokyo Rhapsody (1936)

    Tokyo Rhapsody

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    Film adaptation of the hit song...

    Tokyo Rhapsody
  • 1969
    A Fistful of Dollars Remake

    A Fistful of Dollars Remake (1969)

    A Fistful of Dollars Remake

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    Remake of the western A Fistful of Dollars - the story of a wandering gunfighter with no name who plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge....

    A Fistful of Dollars Remake
  • 2002
    Chris on Chris

    Chris on Chris (2002)

    Chris on Chris

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    A short film on Chris Marker...

    Chris on Chris