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Akira Kurosawa films
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Filmed in 70mm on location in the peaceful vastnesss of the Siberian ice desert, this is one of Kurosawa's most beautiful films as well as a tale of great humanity. It is based on the turn of the century journals of Tsarist officer, Vladimir Arsenie... Our Price: £11.99 DVD | Available | Save £11.00 (47%)
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Set in a depressed post-war Japan still occupied by the Americans, this is both a character-driven film noir and an allegory of Japan's reconstruction, in which the worlds of a greedy, alcoholic doctor and a shallow young Yakuza gangster collide. Th... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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A ruthless kidnapper aiming to snatch a wealthy industrialist's son takes the chauffeur's son by mistake - but still demands the ransom. Inspector Tokuro is ruthless in his pursuit of the kidnapper, and the tension increases as he closes in on his m... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Made at the height of the Cold War, Kurosawa bases his film around a wealthy foundry owner who decides to move his entire family from Tokyo to Brazil to escape the holocaust which he believes is imminent. The family are living too comfortably in Jap... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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A powerful story of one man's struggle to do something worthwhile in the last six months of his life. A clerical worker with stomach cancer discovers a new zest for life and plans to turn a city waste dump into a children's playground. Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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AKA The Shadow Warrior. A common thief is spared execution in order to double for the lord of the clan. A simple tale is rendered with Shakespearean power and all the elan of which Kurosawa was capable. Our Price: £10.49 DVD | In Stock | Save £7.50 (41%)
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An Introduction Probably the most famous Japanese director in the West, Kurosawa is barely-known in his own country. Whereas other well-known Japanese filmmakers such as Ozu and Mizoguchi focus on human relations and nature, Kurosawa's more stylistic approach often encompasses exquisite action and battle scenes, as his masterpieces The Seven Samurai and Ran prove. Ikiru, a heartwarming tale of a dying man's redemption, demonstrates that Kurosawa was equally at home when filming humanity.
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Aka Not Yet. In pre-WWII Tokyo, a professor of German decides to retire after thirty years of teaching and dedicate himself to writing. His students love and respect him and keep in close touch with him and his wife, building him a house after it is... Our Price: £7.99 DVD | Available | Save £12.00 (60%)
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Returning to a field explored in Throne of Blood, Kurosawa, at the age of 75, adapted Shakespeare's King Lear to the story of ageing warlord Hidetora who, in an attempt to restore peace, divides his kingdom between his three sons and retires from hi... Our Price: £8.49 DVD | In Stock | Save £11.50 (57%)
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A woodcutter witnesses an ambush, rape and murder in a forest. In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants gives a different view of what happened - is anyone telling the truth? This film was arguably the first to alert Western... Our Price: £14.99 DVD | Released 15th Sep | Save £5.00 (25%)
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The last and most ambitious of Kurosawa's collaborations with Mifune, who plays an authoritarian but humane doctor who has to teach an idle new intern responsibility to oneself and others. A series of vignettes transform the arrogant student into a ... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Forty-four years on from the death of her husband in the Nagasaki holocaust, an old woman is prompted to recall the past after a visit from her four grandchildren and an American-Japanese nephew (Richard Gere). As she tells her story she also chroni... Our Price: £7.99 DVD | Released 4th Aug | Save £2.00 (20%)
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Shows Kurosawa's lightest touch in dealing with the Samurai genre. With a heady blend of traditional Japanese theatrical conventions and the language of Western film-making, Sanjuro is a masterpiece of comedy-drama, with a final fight scene so swift... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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A young painter is photographed giving a lift to a singer. A magazine creates an exposé of their 'secret romance' and a bitter libel case ensues in order to restore their honour. As relevant now as when it was made, this is a pointed attack on the p... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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Superlative adventure film in which seven warriors defend a village from ferocious bandits. With comedy, pathos, tension and some of the finest action sequences ever filmed, this is simply magnificent cinema. It was of course later remade as 'The Ma... Our Price: £11.99 DVD | Available | Save £8.00 (40%)
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This long-neglected early work is a masterful mix of film noir and police thriller set in the sweltering mean streets of post-war Tokyo. When young detective Murakami (Mifune) has his pistol stolen, he is overwhelmed by a feeling of dishonour rather... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £4.00 (20%)
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