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Posted on July 18, 2019 | Comments Off on Sanjuro (1962) 720p BluRay Criterion Collection DTS x264-HDH
Sanjuro / Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on August 4, 2017 |
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Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî / Rhapsody in August (1991)
Drama
Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Starring: Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshie Negishi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Mieko Suzuki, Richard Gere
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on November 9, 2016 |
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Yume / Dreams (1990)
Drama | Fantasy
A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Starring: Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada, Yoshitaka Zushi
Director: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
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Posted on April 8, 2016 | Comments Off on Ran (1985) 720p BluRay DD4.0 x264-antsy
Ran (1985)
Action | Drama
With 'Ran', legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on September 15, 2013 |
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Dersu Uzala (1975)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilization.
Starring: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on October 31, 2012 | Comments Off on Rashomon (1950) BluRay Criterion Collection 720p AC3 x264-CHD
Rashomon / Rashômon / Rashou-mon (1950)
Crime | Drama
A tale of rape and murder in 12th-century Kyoto.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on June 12, 2012 |
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High and Low / Tengoku to jigoku (1963)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An executive mortgages all he owns to stage a coup and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the intent of keeping the company out of the hands of incompetent and greedy executives. He needs the same money, though, to pay the ransom that will possibly save a child's life. His resolution of that dilemma — the certain loss of the company vs. the probable loss of the child — makes for one distinct drama, and an ensuing elaborate police procedure makes for a second.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on February 8, 2012 | Comments Off on Yojimbo (1961) Criterion Collection BluRay 720p x264 DTS-MySiLU
Yôjinbô / The Bodyguard (1961)
Action | Adventure
To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on February 8, 2012 |
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Ikiru / Living (1952)
Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find a meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on February 3, 2012 |
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Sanshiro Sugata / Sugata Sanshirô (1943)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.
Starring: Denjirô Ôkôchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on February 2, 2012 | Comments Off on Red Beard (1965) BluRay 720p AC3 x264-CHD
Red Beard / Akahige (1965)
Drama
In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on January 3, 2012 |
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Throne of Blood / Kumonosu-jô (1957)
Drama
A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on January 2, 2012 |
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The Hidden Fortress / Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958)
Action | Adventure
Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on January 2, 2012 |
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Stray Dog / Nora inu (1949)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on January 2, 2012 |
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One Wonderful Sunday / Subarashiki nichiyôbi (1947)
Drama | Romance
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his realistic despair.
Starring: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe, Zeko Nakamura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on January 2, 2012 |
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I Live in Fear / Ikimono no kiroku (1955)
Drama
An aging, industrialist Japanese man becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyôko Aoyama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on January 2, 2012 |
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Dodes'ka-den / Clickety-Clack (1970)
Drama
Various tales in the lives oh Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
Starring: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yûko Kusunoki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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The Silent Duel / Shizukanaru kettô (1949)
Drama
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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Drunken Angel / Yoidore tenshi (1948)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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