Movies: Akira Kurosawa
- 1937
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf (1937)
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Story of a bandit king....
- 1942
Currents of Youth (1942)
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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 ...
- 1938
Subterranean Heat (1938)
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- 1943
World of Love (1943)
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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...
- 1937
Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait (1937)
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1930s Japanese comedy....
- 1950
Jiruba no Tetsu (1950)
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- 1969
Searching For Kurosawa (1969)
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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...
- 2005
Image: Kurosawa's Continuity (2005)
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A 43-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Akira Kurosawa's paintings and sketches....
- 1948
The Portrait (1948)
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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....
- 2012
The World of Kazuo Miyagawa (2012)
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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...
- 1945
Bravo! Tebare Ishin (1945)
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1945 Japanese movie...
- 1950
Fencing Master (1950)
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Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically....
- 1951
Beyond Love and Hate (1951)
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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...
- 1936
Enoken’s Ten Millions (1936)
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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....
- 1939
Easy Alley (1939)
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- 2020
Dersu Uzala. Russian Dreams of Kurosawa (2020)
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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...
- 1936
Tokyo Rhapsody (1936)
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Film adaptation of the hit song...
- 1969
A Fistful of Dollars Remake (1969)
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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....
- 2002
Chris on Chris (2002)
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A short film on Chris Marker...