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Seven Samurai
(七人の侍)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1954
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katô
• Genre Action, Drama
• Available on Google Play, VUDU, Amazon, YouTube, Criterion, HBO Max, iTunes

The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town

Ran
(乱)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan, France • 1985
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki
• Genre Action, Drama, History
• Available on Amazon, Microsoft Movies & TV, YouTube, Redbox, DIRECTV, iTunes, Google Play, VUDU

The Greatest Shakespeare Film

Madadayo
(まあだだよ)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1993
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion

Ikiru
(生きる)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1952
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Miki Odagiri, Shinichi Himori
• Genre Drama
• Available on iTunes, Google Play, VUDU, Amazon, YouTube, Kanopy, Criterion, HBO Max

Mr. Watanabe tries to find a meaningful human connection after he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

High and Low
(天国と地獄)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1963
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjirō Ishiyama
• Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Available on iTunes, Amazon, Kanopy, Criterion

From Akira Kurosawa, director of "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro" comes a tense, taut film of a modern "perfect crime" with more excitement than even Hitchcock could create.

Rashomon
(羅生門)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1950
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Takashi Shimura, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijirô Ueda
• Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion, HBO Max, iTunes, Amazon

A singular crime from four different perspectives.

Yojimbo
(用心棒)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1961
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Seizaburō Kawazu
• Genre Drama, Thriller
• Available on Criterion, HBO Max, iTunes, Amazon, Kanopy

Better if all these men were dead. Think about it!

The Hidden Fortress
(隠し砦の三悪人)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1958
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura
• Genre Adventure, Drama, Action, Comedy
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion, HBO Max, Amazon

Red Beard
(赤ひげ)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1965
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyōko Kagawa
• Genre Drama
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion

What is the key to life - power, prestige or peace?

Dersu Uzala
(Дерсу Узала)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Soviet Union, Japan • 1975
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Yuriy Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, B. Khorulev, Vladimir Kremena, Aleksandr Pyatkov
• Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
• Available on Criterion

Kurosawa's Academy Award Winning Masterpiece

Throne of Blood
(蜘蛛巣城)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1957
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Tachikawa
• Genre Drama, History
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion, HBO Max, iTunes, Amazon

Akira Kurosawa adapts "Macbeth" setting it in feudal Japan.

Sanjuro
(椿三十郎)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1962
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura
• Genre Drama, Action, Comedy
• Available on Amazon, Kanopy, Criterion, iTunes

Akira Kurosawa's Powerful and Newest Japanese Masterpiece

Kagemusha
(影武者)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan, USA • 1980
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Takashi Shimura, Kenichi Hagiwara
• Genre Action, Drama, History, War
• Available on VUDU, Amazon, Microsoft Movies & TV, FandangoNOW, Google Play, YouTube, DIRECTV, iTunes

A petty thief must impersonate a powerful warlord in order to lead his troops to battle.

The Bad Sleep Well
(悪い奴ほどよく眠る)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1960
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takeshi Katō, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on Criterion, Kanopy

Dreams
(夢)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan, USA • 1990
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshihiko Nakano
• Genre Fantasy, Drama
• Available on iTunes, Microsoft Movies & TV, FandangoNOW, YouTube, VUDU, Amazon, Redbox, Google Play, DIRECTV

The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.

Drunken Angel
(酔いどれ天使)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1948
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku
• Genre Drama
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion

Stray Dog
(野良犬)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1949
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku, Noriko Honma
• Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion

... The Suspense Filled Story of 7 Bullets!

The Quiet Duel
(静かなる決闘)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1949
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjo, Takashi Shimura, Kenjiro Uemura, Isamu Yamaguchi, Noriko Sengoku
• Genre Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

One Wonderful Sunday
(素晴らしき日曜日)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1947
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe, Zeko Nakamura, Toppa Utsumi, Ichiro Namiki
• Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
• Available on Criterion

I Live in Fear
(生きものの記録)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1955
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Masao Shimizu, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyōko Aoyama
• Genre Drama
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion

The Idiot
(白痴)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1951
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Takashi Shimura, Chieko Higashiyama
• Genre Drama, Romance
• Available on Criterion

Rhapsody in August
(八月の狂詩曲)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1991
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Sachiko Murase, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mieko Suzuki, Mitsunori Isaki, Hisashi Igawa
• Genre Comedy, Drama
• Available on No streaming locations found.

Tears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering.

The Lower Depths
(どん底)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1957
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion

Samurai 7
(SAMURAI 7)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan, USA • 2004
• Creator Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Kong Kuwata, Masaki Terasoma, Romi Park, Shin-ichiro Miki, Toru Kusano, Tetsu Inada
• Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama
• Available on Hulu, Microsoft Movies & TV, Funimation Now, iTunes, VUDU, Amazon

Scandal
(醜聞)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1950
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Eitarō Ozawa, Takashi Shimura
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion

Dodes'ka-den
(どですかでん)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1970
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yûko Kusunoki, Junzaburō Ban
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion

No Regrets for Our Youth
(わが青春に悔なし)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1946
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirō Ōkōchi, Haruko Sugimura, Eiko Miyoshi, Akitake Kôno
• Genre Drama
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
(虎の尾を踏む男達)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1952
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Kenichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Akitake Kôno
• Genre Drama, Comedy, History, Thriller
• Available on Criterion

Sanshiro Sugata
(姿三四郎)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1943
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Takashi Shimura, Ranko Hanai
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
(續 姿三四郎)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1945
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kôno, Yukiko Todoroki, Sōji Kiyokawa
• Genre Action, Drama, Adventure
• Available on Criterion

The Most Beautiful
(一番美しく)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1944
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Takashi Shimura, Shôji Kiyokawa, Ichirô Sugai, Takako Irie, Yôko Yaguchi, Sayuri Tanima
• Genre Drama, War
• Available on Criterion

Song of the Horse
(馬の歌)

• ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1970
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Hiroyuki Kawase, Noboru Mitani
• Genre Documentary
• Available on No streaming locations found.