After his dramatic feature “The Lower Depths”, Japanese auteur Akira Kuroswa returned to the jidai geki genre with his 1958 effort “The Hidden Fortress”. While...
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While Akira Kurosawa did not always have the highest opinion of his 1949 effort “Stray Angel”, as he thought it was “too technical”, there is no doubt that his...
Because “The Bad Sleep Well” had not performed as expected commercially, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa decided to return to the jidai-geki with what is...
In 1959, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was at the height of his success in his home country and had received much international praise for features such as...
Perhaps it is one of the great ironies in the career of Japanese director Kihachi Okamoto that a film he was forced to do was going to be his most memorable...
“Red Beard” is a film that reminds one that the distance to be travelled is far longer than the distance that was already covered. Not only in the...
Yojimbo: A Timeless Classic Cast: Toshiro MifuneTatsuya NakadaiYoko TsukasaIsuzu Yamada Director:Akira Kurosawa Yojimbo is a Japanese samurai movie made in...