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Shichinin No Samurai aka Seven Samurai (1954) FR #34 | Movie | Western, Action | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima
Plot Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
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Ran (1985) FR #111 | Movie | Action, Drama | Japan, France | Japanese, German
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Plot In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
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Yojinbo aka Yojimbo (1961) FR #263 | Movie | Western, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo Kikushima
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
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Tengoku To Jigoku aka High And Low (1963) FR #515 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima, Eijiro Hisaita
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.
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Rashomon (1950) FR #528 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori
Plot The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
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Dersu Uzala (1975) FR #649 | Movie | Biography, Adventure | Japan, Russia | Russian, Chinese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Yuriy Nagibin, Vladimir Arsenev
Cast Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov
Plot The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.
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Ikiru (1952) FR #782 | Movie | Drama | Japan | Japanese, Latin
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Cast Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'Ichi Himori
Plot A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
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Kakushi-Toride No San-Akunin aka The Hidden Fortress (1958) FR #797 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Plot Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
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Tsubaki Sanjuro aka Sanjuro (1962) FR #807 | Movie | Action, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Plot A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
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Kagemusha aka Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980) FR #843 | Movie | History, Drama | Japan, USA | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'Ichi Hagiwara
Plot A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
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Nora Inu aka Stray Dog (1949) FR #844 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | Japanese, French
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Plot During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt pistol.
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Akahige aka Red Beard (1965) FR #1317 | Movie | Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Masato Ide, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Plot In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
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Yoidore Tenshi aka Drunken Angel (1948) FR #1375 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan, USA | Japanese, English
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Keinosuke Uekusa, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Reizaburo Yamamoto
Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
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Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru aka The Bad Sleep Well (1960) FR #1815 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Hideo Oguni, Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Plot A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
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Kumonosu-Jo aka Throne Of Blood (1957) FR #2573 | Movie | Drama | Japan, USA | Japanese, English
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryuzo Kikushima
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
Plot A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
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Yume aka Dreams (1990) FR #3269 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | USA, Japan | Japanese, French
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Director Akira Kurosawa, Ishiro Honda
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Ishiro Honda
Cast Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi
Plot A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
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Waga Seishun Ni Kuinashi aka No Regrets For Our Youth (1946) FR #3910 | Movie | Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Eijiro Hisaita, Akira Kurosawa, Keiji Matsuzaki
Cast Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjiro "Kochi
Plot The daughter of a politically disgraced university professor struggles to find a place for herself in love and life, in the uncertain world of Japan leading into WWII.
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Shizuka Naru Ketto aka The Quiet Duel (1949) FR #4398 | Movie | Drama | Japan, Poland | Japanese, Polish
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Kazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Cast Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo
Plot 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.
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Subarashiki Nichiyobi aka One Wonderful Sunday (1947) FR #4896 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Japan | Japanese
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Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Keinosuke Uekusa
Cast Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe
Plot During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, despairing Yuzo and optimistic Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time.
