Search results for "Akira Kurosawa"
Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai
IMDb: 8.6
207 min

One village asked for help from the bandits after a veteran samurai has lost his fortune. Six other samurai join him to assist him. They teach the village how to…

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Genre: Action, Drama
Ran

Ran

Ran
IMDb: 8.2
162 min

Hidetori Ichimonji, a Japanese warlord decides it is time to end his career and split his fiefdom between his three sons. Taro and Jiro, his middle and eldest sons, agree…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Rashomon

Rashomon

Rashomon
IMDb: 8.2
88 min

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, “Rashomon” is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ikiru

Ikiru

Ikiru
IMDb: 8.3
143 min

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his…

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Genre: Drama
Yojimbo

Yojimbo

Yojimbo
IMDb: 8.2
110 min

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress
IMDb: 8.1
126 min

Japanese peasants Matashichi and Tahei try and fail to make a profit from a tribal war. They find a man and woman whom they believe are simple tribe members hiding…

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Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood

Throne of Blood
IMDb: 8.1
110 min

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit’s prophecy comes true, Washizu’s…

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Genre: Drama, History
Sanjuro

Sanjuro

Sanjuro
IMDb: 8.1
96 min

Sanjuro is a wandering Samurai who gets drawn to local politics. A clan’s Superintendent plans to overthrow the Chief by incriminating the Chamberlain for corrupt activities, which is something the…

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Stray Dog

Stray Dog

Stray Dog
IMDb: 7.9
122 min

Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Red Beard

Red Beard

Red Beard
IMDb: 8.4
185 min

It's the early nineteenth century, and young Dr. Noboru Yasumoto has been summoned for a reason unknown to him to rural Koishikawa Medical Clinic from Nagasaki, where he has been…

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Genre: Drama
High and Low

High and Low

High and Low
IMDb: 8.4
143 min

A wealthy businessman is told his son has been kidnapped and he will have to pay a very large sum for him to be returned safely. It is then discovered…

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Dodes’ka-den

Dodes’ka-den

Dodes’ka-den
IMDb: 7.4
140 min

Episodes from the lives of a group of Tokyo slum-dwellers: Rokkuchan, an intellectually disabled boy who brings meaning and routine to his life by driving an imaginary streetcar; children who…

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Genre: Drama
Dreams (1990)

Dreams (1990)

Dreams (1990)
IMDb: 7.8
119 min

This is essentially eight separate short films, though with some overlaps in terms of characters and thematic material – chiefly that of man's relationship with his environment. 'Sunshine Through The…

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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth
IMDb: 7.1
110 min

In 1933, in Kyoto, academic freedom is under attack and the spoiled daughter of Professor Yagihara, Yukie Yagihara, is courted by the idealistic student Ruykichi Noge and by the tolerant…

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Genre: Drama
I Live in Fear

I Live in Fear

I Live in Fear
IMDb: 7.3
103 min

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is so frightened and obsessed with the idea of nuclear extermination that his family decides to have him ruled incompetent. Nakajima's fervent wish is…

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Genre: Drama
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail
IMDb: 6.7
59 min

In 1185, the Heike family fights against the Minamoto family. After a bloody naval battle in the Pacific Ocean, Yoshitsune Minamoto defeats the enemy and the survivals commit suicide. When…

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The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well
IMDb: 8.0
151 min

It is a high-profile wedding: the daughter of Mr Iwabuchi, a wealthy businessman, is marrying Mr Nishi, a car salesman. However, Mr Iwabuchi and other senior members of his company…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel
IMDb: 7.4
95 min

In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada….

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Genre: Drama
Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August
IMDb: 7.2
98 min

An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four grandchildren for their summer vacation. They learn about the atomic bomb that fell in 1945, and how it…

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Genre: Drama
Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel
IMDb: 7.7
102 min

After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster's tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin…

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Genre: Drama
Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala

Dersu Uzala
IMDb: 8.3
142 min

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…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Madadayo

Madadayo

Madadayo
IMDb: 7.3
134 min

This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an air raid, when he left to become a…

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Genre: Drama
Scandal

Scandal

Scandal
IMDb: 7.2
105 min

Famous singer Miyako Saijo, who is publicity shy, and motorbiking artist Ichirô Aoye, who has minor celebrity, meet by chance in Kappazawa while Ichirô is on a painting expedition, and…

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Genre: Drama