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AK 100: 25 FILMS BY AKIRA KUROSAWA
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This linen-bound box set from Criterion is absolutely gorgeous and packed with genuine masterpieces and new insights on them.
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AKIRA KUROSAWA'S DREAMS (DVD-R)
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From master director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon, Kagemusha, Ran) comes perhaps his most personal film. Dreams is an omnibus of eight fascinating episodes dealing with war, childhood fears, the nuclear power question, and man's never-ending need to harmonize with nature. Featuring breathtaking visual sequences and Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh. "A magnificent, immensely absorbing experience" (The Washington Post). In Japanese, English, and French with English subtitles.
Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1990---120 mins.
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BAD SLEEP WELL (CRITERION)
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One of Kurosawa's best films, in some ways a prophetic work set in the circles of corporate government and corporations. The film is a black, twisted story of revenge in which a grieving son takes on powerful business and political figures, marrying the daughter of his superior as part of his plan to avenge the death of his father. Set up as a tantalizing thriller, Kurosawa's melodrama is laced with irony and bitter, grotesque humor. In Japanese with English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1960---151 mins.
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DERSU UZALA
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Kurosawa's remarkable personal tale of the friendship between a wise old man and a young, Soviet explorer. Filmed in the beautiful expanse of Siberia, it is a unique story of man's unity with nature, and a powerful testament to faith. "...Dersu Uzala brings moments of real majesty. It is the clear resonance of genius; Kurosawa can find grandeur in the intimate as well as the infinite" (Jay Cocks, Time). Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film. In Russian with English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan/USSR---1975---140 mins.
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DODES'KA-DEN
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Kurosawa blends fantasy and reality in this unforgettable story of a group of Tokyo slum dwellers who, cheated by life, survive on illusion and imagination. Dodesukaden is a passionate affirmation of life, all beautifully photographed by Takao Saito and Yasumichi Fukuzawa. The title of the film comes from the clickety-clack sound made by the trolleys. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1970---144 mins.
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DRUNKEN ANGEL
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Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor who tries to help a sick, uprooted criminal (Toshiro Mifune) in this postwar drama from Akira Kurosawa.
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ECLIPSE SERIES 23: THE FIRST FILMS OF AKIRA KUROSAWA
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The first four features by the great Akira Kurosawa--all remarkable dramas made during Japan's destruction in WWII and subsequent occupation.
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ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE: VOLUME IV
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A no frills rerelease of six inarguable masterpieces from Rene Clement, Marcel Carne, Anatole Litvak, Powell and Pressburger, Alfred Hitchcock, and Akira Kurosawa.
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GREAT DIRECTORS VOLUME 1
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This five-DVD set highlights masterpieces from five of the world's greatest directors: Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Claude Chabrol, Michelangelo Antonioni and Volker Schlondorff. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1975, 140 mins.) is the Oscar-winning tale of a Siberian adventure pitting man against nature. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR, 1974, 106 mins.) takes a personal and beautiful look back at director Tarkovsky's youth troubled by WWII and an uncertain future. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol, France, 1960, 93 mins.) is Chabrol's early suspense classic about four shopgirls, their loves, their stalkers and the ever-present dangers of passion. With passion replaced by lust, Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy, 1957, 115 mins.) is the poetic bittersweet saga of a pair of lovers headed for doom. Lastly, Circle of Deceit (Volker Schlondorff, West Germany, 1981, 108 mins.) takes aim at modern journalism in this tale of personal jealousies and ethics in conflict in war-torn Beirut. In Japanese,
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HIDDEN FORTRESS
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Set during Japan's feudal wars, this restored version of Akira Kurosawa's drama concerns a gilded princess and her loyal general who undertake a dangerous journey to their homeland, assisted only by a pair of misfits and pursued by warriors and bandits attempting to loot their gold and valuable possessions. Beautifully photographed in widescreen by Ichio Yamazaki, this classic was the main inspiration for George Lucas' Star Wars. With Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara and Minoru Chiaki. Thirteen minutes cut from the original Japanese release in the U.S. have been restored for this edition. In Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1958---139 mins.
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HIGH AND LOW- KUROSAWA
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Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of an Ed McBain mystery stars two of Japan's greats, Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai, in a riveting American-style thriller set in modern-day Yokohama. Mifune plays a self-made tycoon targeted by kidnappers. When he realizes they have taken his chauffeur's son and not his own, the millionaire faces a moral dilemma: to save the boy or save his empire from financial ruin. "One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed" (The New York Times). In Japanese with optional English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1963---143 mins.
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IDIOT (AKIRA KUROSAWA)
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Drawing from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Kurosawa transposes this bitter story to postwar Japan. Kameda, a war criminal sentenced to death, has been pardoned at the last moment and the shock turns him into an idiot prone to epileptic fits. Upon release, he is befriended by the strong and tenacious Akama. When they both fall for the beautiful Takeo Nasu, madness becomes a common denominator in this grossly tragic and haunting film. In Japanese with English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1951---166 mins.
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IKIRU
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Akira Kurosawa moved outside his usual stylistic preoccupations to make this poetic and emotionally powerful work about a gravely ill, quiet and dignified civil servant who vows to find grace and purpose in his final months, through the building of a public park. It's a thoughtful, contemplative, lyrical work centered by Takashi Shimura's virtuoso performance. With Nobuo Kaneko, Kyoko Seki and Miki Odagiri. In Japanese with English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1952---143 mins.
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KAGEMUSHA
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A masterpiece. Set in 1531 Japan torn by civil strife, Kagemusha deals with a mighty Japanese warlord and his commoner look-alike who, after the warlord's death, is used to keep his clan together. Tatsuya Nakadai is superb in the dual role of the warlord and his double, both caught up in the swirl of history as the mighty powers clash in fierce battles and political intrigue. Winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes. In Japanese with English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1980---180 mins.
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KUROSAWA (DOCUMENTARY)
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This Great Performances documentary presents a comprehensive assessment of the rich career of master Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. Clips from Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo< /i>, Ran and other great Kurosawa films are complemented by interviews with several of the director's collaborators, as well as admirers such as Kon Ichikawa, Clint Eastwood, and others. Adam Low---USA---2002---115 mins.
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KUROSAWA: A DOCUMENTARY
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An indelible portrait of a master auteur, this feature-length documentary provides an illuminating critical assessment of Akira Kurosawa's esteemed career. Through interviews with friends and admirers including Clint Eastwood, James Coburn, Teruyo Nogami, Machiko Kyo, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Donald Richie, the documentary explores the Japanese director's string of extraordinary films that spanned the years 1943-1991. Includes clips and discussion of Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo (1961), Ran (1985), and other masterpieces. Adam Low---USA---2001---115 mins.
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MADADAYO
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The final film from Japan's greatest director, Akira Kurosawa, is a beautifully serene contemplation of aging and mortality, based on the life of essayist and novelist Hyakken Uchida. A beloved teacher retires from his profession to concentrate on his writing. He is visited by the students he inspired as the years pass, while the appearance and disappearance of a cat presents a metaphor for this late stage in his life. "Madadayo, in its exquisite and respectful sincerity, stands out against both the cynicism and the maudlin excess that characterize so many recent American movies" (A.O. Scott, New York Times). In Japanese with English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1993---134 mins.
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POSTWAR KUROSAWA: ECLIPSE 7
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During the Occupation and the early postwar period when Akira Kurosawa rose to international prominence with Rashomon and Seven Samurai, he directed a number of pensive dramas that were overshadowed by these masterpieces. Five are collected here. No Regrets for Our Youth (1946, 110 mins.) is arguably his first great film, featuring a commanding performance by Setsuko Hara as a woman whose life unfolds against the backdrop of Japanese militarist society. The beautifully realized, stylistically adventurous One Wonderful Sunday (1947, 108 mins.) tells the simultaneously sentimental and ironic story of a young, poor couple whose Sunday afternoon in bustling Tokyo is threatened by weather and money. The director's eleventh film, Scandal (1950, 105 mins.), targets moral corruption by way of a courtroom drama. Drawing from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (1951, 166 mins.) finds Kurosawa transposing this bitter story to postwar Japan, where a war criminal sentenced to death is pardoned, only to turn into an idiot prone to epileptic fits. Lastly, in I Live in Fear< /i> (1955, 105 mins.), Toshiro Mifune is the aging head of a Tokyo family, Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1946-1955---594 mins.
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QUIET DUEL, THE
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Based on a play by Kazuo Kikuta, this early Kurosawa film concerns an army surgeon who, during a life-saving operation, contaminates himself with syphilis which, at the time, was virtually incurable. Now suffering with the dreaded disease, he is forced to abandon his fiancee but finds the faith to redouble his work to restore people to health, including the man from whom he contracted the disease. With Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Miki Sanjko. In Japanese with English subtitles. Akira Kurosawa---Japan---1949---95 mins.
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RAN (CRITERION)
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Kurosawa's decade-in-the-making version of King Lear brilliantly blends Japanese history with Shakespeare's themes.
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