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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 iTunes, VUDU, Google Play, YouTube, Criterion, Amazon, HBO Max

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 Microsoft Movies & TV, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, VUDU, DIRECTV, Redbox, Amazon

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 Amazon, iTunes, VUDU, Kanopy, YouTube, Google Play, Criterion

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, Kenjiro 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, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijirô Ueda
• Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Available on Kanopy, Criterion, Amazon, HBO Max, iTunes

The husband, the wife...or the bandit?

Dersu Uzala
(Дерсу Узала)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Soviet Union, Japan • 1975
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Yuriy Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Svetlana Danilchenko, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Daniil Netrebin
• Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
• Available on Criterion

Kurosawa's Academy Award Winning Masterpiece

Yojimbo
(用心棒)

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

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

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?

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 HBO Max, Amazon, Kanopy, Criterion, iTunes

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, Amazon, iTunes

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, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara
• Genre Drama, Action, Comedy
• Available on iTunes, Kanopy, Criterion, Amazon

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, Google Play, YouTube, FandangoNOW, DIRECTV, Amazon, iTunes

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

Drunken Angel
(酔いどれ天使)

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

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 Kanopy, Criterion

Dreams
(夢)

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

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

Stray Dog
(野良犬)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1949
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi, Noriko Sengoku, Reikichi Kawamura
• 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, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita, 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, Ichiro Namiki, Toppa Utsumi
• 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, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyôko Aoyama, Haruko Tôgô
• 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

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, Junzaburô Ban
• Genre Drama
• Available on Criterion

Rhapsody in August
(八月の狂詩曲)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1991
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Ôtakara, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshie Negishi
• 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 Funimation Now, iTunes, VUDU, Amazon, Hulu

Scandal
(醜聞)

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

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, Takashi Shimura, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, 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, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata, Akitake Kôno, Yukiko Todoroki, Sôji 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
(Uma no uta)

• ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
• Japan • 1970
• Director Akira Kurosawa
• Cast
• Genre Documentary
• Available on No streaming locations found.