The Hidden Fortress (1958), Throne of Blood (1957), Stray Dog (1949), Drunken Angel (1948), Seven Samurai (1954), High and Low (1963), Ikiru (1952), Dersu Uzala (1975) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Akira Kurosawa movies.
Storyline: 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 taken under the wing of an older and wiser detective, Sato. Together they track the culprit.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, detective, post-war, japan, 1940s, police ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In medieval Japan, aging Rokubei, his younger wife of four years Osugi and her uncle run a tenement complex at the bottom of a cliff, the complex which from the naked eye at the top of the cliff looks like nothing more than a rubbish heap. The tenants are a group of down-and-outers with some who operate on the far side of the law. Nonetheless, the tenants are close knit community in wallowing in their collective misery, those who care who know their lives will never get better as long as they stay there. The landlords have no compassion for the tenants, they mockingly only stating that the tenants will be given a favorable standing in a future life for any good deeds done around the tenement. The recent arrival of Kahei, a mysterious elderly man, affectionately referred to as Grandpa, who spins tales of the unknown, provides at least hope that there is a better life out there somewhere. Sutekichi, a thief who arguably is the leader among the tenants, and Osugi are carrying on an affair behind Rokubei's back. Although he has previously professed his love for her, the words were more an empty platitude. He begins to have feelings for Osugi's younger sister, Okaya, who works for her sister cleaning up the tenement under her watchful eye. Okaya does not know if she can trust the words of anyone who lives in the complex, while Osugi, who knows of Sutekichi feelings for Okaya, begins to have feelings of jealousy. Osugi and Sutekichi work toward their own goals at the expense of others within the complex.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, social, poverty, class, human nature, realism, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Russian explorer develops a unique and lasting relationship with a frontiersman during an expedition in Siberia.
Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, friendship, nature, siberia, wilderness, hunter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A feature-length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Narrated by Keanu Reeves.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, film history, hollywood, actor, director, film criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Kurosawa follows the life of "I" from boy (Mitsunori Isaki) to man (Akira Terao) in eight episodes of themes like war, nature and nuclear horror.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, allegory, dreams, surreal, poetic, nuclear fear, man and nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three disparate travelers, a disillusioned preacher, an unsuccessful prospector, and a larcenous, cynical con man, meet at a decrepit railroad station in the 1870s Southwest. The prospector and the preacher were witnesses at the singularly memorable rape and murder trial of the notorious Mexican outlaw Carasco. The bandit duped an aristocratic Southerner into believing he knew the location of a lost Aztec treasure. The greedy "gentleman" allows himself to be tied up while Carasco rapes his wife. These events lead to the stabbing of the husband and are related by the three eyewitnesses to the atrocity: the infamous bandit, the newlywed wife, and the dead man through an Indian shaman. Whose version of the events is true? Possibly there was a fourth witness, but can his version be trusted?—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: western, remake, moral dilemma, courtroom drama, paul newman, racial issues, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An American relative (Richard Gere) visits four teens and their grandmother (Sachiko Murase) near Nagasaki.
Plot Keywords: war, family, memory, japan, elderly, history, trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Japanese police and a tycoon's (Masayuki Mori) son-in-law (Toshirô Mifune) discover deadly corporate corruption.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, mystery, film noir, revenge, corporate corruption, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, drama, historical, war, swordplay, village ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Yukie (Setsuko Hara) is a young woman living in 1930s Japan, blissfully unaware of the tumultuous political changes occurring around her. She is shocked into reality, though, when her father, a college professor, is forced to resign after preaching anti-fascist views. As she becomes more aware of the world around her, Yukie falls in love with one of her father's students who shares his radical views, even as the government seeks to crush anyone who openly opposes it.
Plot Keywords: war, history, drama, world war ii, politics, romance, female protagonist ...
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