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 | Akira Kurosawas Dreams on DVD $14.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Following up on his critically acclaimed, blood-splattered epic Ran, master director Akira Kurosawa looks inward with this collection of eight brightly colored dreams. The first section centers on a young boy ( (More Info...) |
 | Dersu Uzala on DVD $22.99 From Akira Kurosawa
A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming the first Russian/Japanese co-production. Co-scripted and directed by Kurosawa, Dersu (More Info...) |
 | Dersu Uzala on DVD $29.99 From Akira Kurosawa
A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming the first Russian/Japanese co-production. Co-scripted and directed by Kurosawa, Dersu (More Info...) |
 | High and Low on DVD $29.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Based on -Kings Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him (More Info...) |
 | Ikiru on DVD $29.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawas Ikiru details the existential struggle of one ordinary man in his desperate search for purpose. Upon learning he has terminal stomach cancer, a low-level government bureaucrat (Takashi Shimura) (More Info...) |
 | Kagemusha on DVD $29.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawas reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ev (More Info...) |
 | Madadayo on DVD $16.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawas swansong is a delicate, sentimental portrait of his long avowed hero, educator and literary figure Hyakken Uchida. At the films opening, Uchida -- a professor of German literature at a militar (More Info...) |
 | Ran on DVD $16.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawas reinterpretation of William Shakespeares +King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that hes about to divid (More Info...) |
 | Ran on DVD $17.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawas reinterpretation of William Shakespeares +King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that hes about to divid (More Info...) |
 | Ran on DVD $29.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawas reinterpretation of William Shakespeares +King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that hes about to divid (More Info...) |
 | Rashomon on DVD $31.99 From Akira Kurosawa
This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a downpour beneath a ruined gate in 12th-century Japan. The prie (More Info...) |
 | Red Beard on DVD $28.99 From Akira Kurosawa
In 1820, young Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) completes his medical education in Nagasaki and returns to his native Edo hoping both to marry the daughter of a wealthy man and to achieve affluence himself through (More Info...) |
 | Rhapsody in August on DVD $10.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa follows up on his phantasmorgic Dreams with this delicate tale about war and memory. The film centers on Kane (Sachiko Murase) a grandmother who lives on her traditional farm in (More Info...) |
 | Sanjuro on DVD $33.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or vice-versa, this kinetic drama by acclaimed Akira Kurosawa features the hero Sanjuro (More Info...) |
 | Scandal on DVD $16.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Released in Japan as Shubun, Scandal was the eleventh film directed by Akira Kurosawa (it was produced just prior to his more famous Rashomon). The director described it as a "protest" film about press journal (More Info...) |
 | Seven Samurai on DVD $35.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawas epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped (More Info...) |
 | Stray Dog on DVD $30.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa directs the black-and-white 1949 film noir Nora Inu (released in the U.S. in 1963 as Stray Dog). In his third film with Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune plays young police detective Murakami. One summer (More Info...) |
 | The Bad Sleep Well on DVD $23.99 From Akira Kurosawa
In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeares +Hamlet. The rott (More Info...) |
 | The Hidden Fortress on DVD $23.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawas The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous def (More Info...) |
 | The Idiot on DVD $19.99 From Akira Kurosawa
A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled compassion for people after he moves in with friends of his family as he tries to help a (More Info...) |
 | The Lower Depths on DVD $31.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorkys play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own countrys Edo Period--which, like Gorkys 19th-century setting, was an era of gre (More Info...) |
 | The Quiet Duel on DVD $12.99 From Akira Kurosawa
A dedicated army surgeon finds his once-bright future suddenly obscured when he contracts syphilis while performing a life-saving operation in this early collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and Toshir (More Info...) |
 | Throne of Blood on DVD $28.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawas classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orson Welless more faithful adaptation, Kurosawa chose to place a (More Info...) |
 | Yojimbo on DVD $33.99 From Akira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune portrays a Samurai who finds himself in the middle of a feud-torn Japanese village. Neither side is particularly honorable, but Mifune is hungry and impoverished, so he agrees to work as bodyguar (More Info...) |
