biography: Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He displayed a bold, dynamic style, strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it; he was involved with all aspects of film production. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film Sanshiro Sugata (1943). After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then little-known actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another fifteen films. Rashomon (1950), which premiered in Tokyo, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. The commercial and critical success of that film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers. Kurosawa directed approximately one film per year throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, including a number of highly regarded (and often adapted) films, such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Yojimbo (1961) and High and Low (1963). After the 1960s he became much less prolific; even so, his later work—including two of his final films, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)—continued to receive great acclaim. In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Posthumously, he was named Asian of the Century in the Arts, Literature, and Culture category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited there as being among the five people who most prominently contributed to the improvement of Asia in the 20th century. His career has been honored by many retrospectives, critical studies and biographies in both print and video, and by releases in many consumer media.

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overview: Marcello Mastroianni, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Delon, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen... the biggest stars in cinema were welcomed by Christian Defaye on his show Spécial cinéma. Between intimate confessions from actors and immersion in the world of the greatest filmmakers, Christian Defaye took viewers on a journey into the fascinating world of cinema for nearly thirty years.

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Samurai 7

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overview: As villages perish under the thumb of a cruel race of warriors, a young priestess named Kirara travels the countryside gathering stray samurais.

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Akira Kurosawa

biography: Akira Kurosawa (Kyūjitai: 黒澤 明, Shinjitai: 黒沢 明 Kurosawa Akira) (Shinagawa, 23 de marzo de 1910-Setagaya, 6 de septiembre de 1998) fue uno de los más célebres directores de cine de Japón. Comenzó su carrera con Sugata Sanshiro (La leyenda del gran Judo), dirigió más de 30 películas, entre ellas algunas tan conocidas como Los siete samuráis, Rashōmon o Dersu Uzala. En 1990 recibió un Óscar honorífico por su trayectoria.

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אקירה קורוסאווה

biography: אקירה קורוסאווה (ביפנית: 黒澤 明; 23 במרץ 1910 - 6 בספטמבר 1998) היה במאי קולנוע, תסריטאי ומפיק יפני. נחשב לאחד מיוצרי הסרטים המשפיעים והחשובים ביותר בהיסטוריית הקולנוע. קורוסאווה ביים כ-30 סרטים במהלך הקריירה בת 57 השנים שלו.

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Akira Kurosawa

biography: Akira Kurosawa ( Tóquio, 23 de março de 1910 — Setagaya, 6 de setembro de 1998) foi um dos cineastas mais importantes do Japão, e seus filmes influenciam uma grande geração de diretores. Com uma carreira de cinquenta anos, Kurosawa dirigiu 30 filmes. É amplamente considerado como um dos cineastas mais importantes e influentes da história do cinema. Em 1989, foi premiado com o Óscar pelo conjunto de sua obra "pelas realizações cinematográficas. Em 1985 o Festival de Cinema de Cannes homenageou-o pelo seu filme "Ran" do qual ele mesmo dizia que era a "obra de sua vida". "Ran" foi baseado em adaptações do livro Rei Lear de William Shakespeare.

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Akira Kurosawa

biography: Akira Kurosawa (* 23. März 1910 in Ōmori, Landkreis Ebara (später: Stadt Tokio, heute: Ōta), Tokio; † 6. September 1998 in Setagaya, ebenda) war ein japanischer Filmregisseur. Mit einem Schaffenswerk von 30 Filmen über einen Zeitraum von 57 Jahren gilt er als einer der einflussreichsten Regisseure aller Zeiten.

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黒澤明

biography:
黒澤明（くろさわ あきら）は、日本の映画監督・画家であり、50年以上にわたるキャリアの中で30本の映画を監督しました。彼は映画史上、最も偉大で影響力のある映画監督の一人として広く評価されています。西洋映画から強い影響を受けながらも、それとは一線を画す大胆で躍動的な作風を確立し、映画制作のあらゆる側面に関わりました。

黒澤は画家として短期間活動したのち、1936年に日本映画界へ入りました。助監督や脚本家として数多くの作品に携わった後、第二次世界大戦中に娯楽アクション映画『姿三四郎』（1943年）で監督デビューを果たします。戦後には、高く評価された『酔いどれ天使』（1948年）で当時まだ無名だった俳優・三船敏郎を主演に起用し、この作品によって日本を代表する若手監督としての地位を確立しました。二人はその後さらに15本の映画で協働することになります。

1950年に東京で公開された『羅生門』は、1951年のヴェネツィア国際映画祭で金獅子賞を受賞するという驚きの成功を収めました。この作品の商業的・批評的成功により、日本映画は初めて西洋の映画市場に本格的に紹介され、他の日本人映画監督たちの国際的評価にもつながりました。

1950年代から1960年代初頭にかけて、黒澤はほぼ毎年1本のペースで映画を監督し、『生きる』（1952年）、『七人の侍』（1954年）、『蜘蛛巣城』（1957年）、『用心棒』（1961年）、『天国と地獄』（1963年）など、高く評価され（しばしば翻案もされた）作品を数多く発表しました。

1960年代以降は制作本数が減少しましたが、それでも晩年の代表作である『影武者』（1980年）や『乱』（1985年）を含む後期作品は高い評価を受け続けました。1990年にはアカデミー名誉賞（生涯功労賞）を受賞しています。

没後には、アジアの発展に20世紀でもっとも大きく貢献した5人の一人として、AsianWeek誌およびCNNにより「アジアの世紀（芸術・文学・文化部門）」に選出されました。彼の功績は、書籍や映像による回顧展、批評研究、伝記、そしてさまざまなメディアでの作品リリースを通じて、現在も広く顕彰されています。

普通话

黑泽明

biography: 黑泽明（Akira Kurosawa）出生于东京都荏原郡大井町1150番地（现在的品川区东大井三丁目18番附近）。父亲黑泽勇，母亲黑泽缟的第四个儿子，也是四男四女的兄妹中最末的一个。初中毕业后，黑泽明热衷于绘画，并立志当一名画家 ，由于受到哥哥突然自杀的影响，1934年黑泽明进入PCL电影公司（东宝电影的前身）考取了助理导演，拜导演山本嘉次郎为师，学习导演和编剧。黑泽明称他为一生之中最好的老师。在老师的教导和帮助下，黑泽明得到了真正的锻炼，从第三副导演晋升为第一副导演，并能胜任B班导演。之后又以剧作家的身份发表了，《达摩寺里的德国人》，《寂静》和《雪》。得到了广泛的好评。1943年已有多年经验的资深助理导演和写了十几个剧本的知名青年剧作家黑泽明独立执导了处女作《姿三四郎》，一举成名，与《海港花盛开》的导演木下惠介同被视为日本电影的新希望。1948年，黑泽明再执导筒，执意启用三船敏郎担任《酩酊天使》的男主角，从此，黑泽明和三船敏郎开启了“黑泽明黄金时代”，成为日本最强的电影拍档。截至《红胡子》为止的17年间，由黑泽明导演、三船敏郎担纲的作品包括《罗生门》、《白痴》、《七武士》、《生之欲》、《蜘蛛巢城》、《大镖客》和《天国与地狱》等片。1950年拍摄的《罗生门》，翌年在威尼斯国际电影节上获得最高奖项——金狮奖，奥斯卡金像奖最佳外国语片奖。从此，黑泽明闻名于世界影坛，三船敏郎也先后以《大镖客》、《红胡子》获得威尼斯电影节男主角奖，两人也因而在日本影坛建立了“国际的黑泽，世界的三船”的称号。1960年后半年到1970年初期，是黑泽明创作的低潮期，他和三船敏郎的关系突然决裂，从此，两人不再跟对方说话，也没有再合作。1970年，他根据山本周五郎的小说《没有季节的城市》改编的电影在票房上失利，黑泽明甚至因而企图自杀。1975年他导演的日俄合资电影《德苏乌扎啦》先后得到莫斯科影展金牌奖和奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。1980年的《影子武士》获得戛纳电影节金棕榈奖。1990年，这位“黑泽天皇”成为奥斯卡历史上第一个获得终身成就奖的亚洲电影人。1998年，一代大师黑泽明的逝世标志着大制片厂时代的传统电影正在渐渐地退出历史舞台，向现代电影观念靠拢，从此揭开了日本电影时代更递的一幕。

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Akira Kurosawa

biography:
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明, Kurosawa Akira) est un réalisateur, producteur, scénariste et monteur japonais, né le 23 mars 1910 à Tokyo, où il est mort le 6 septembre 1998. Il est considéré comme l’un des cinéastes les plus célèbres et influents de l’histoire du cinéma. En cinquante-sept ans de carrière cinématographique, il a réalisé plus de trente films.

Après une brève expérience de peintre, Akira Kurosawa entre dans l’industrie cinématographique japonaise en 1936 en tant qu’assistant réalisateur et scénariste. Il fait ses débuts en tant que réalisateur pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale avec le film d’action populaire La Légende du grand judo (姿三四郎, Sugata Sanshirō, 1943). Son huitième long métrage, L’Ange ivre (酔いどれ天使, Yoidore tenshi), sort en 1948 et est acclamé par la critique, consolidant sa réputation. Ce film marque les débuts de sa collaboration avec l’acteur Toshirō Mifune, qui va tourner dans seize de ses films.

Pour Rashōmon (羅生門), dont la première a lieu à Tokyo en août 1950, Akira Kurosawa reçoit le Lion d’or de la Mostra de Venise. Cette récompense inattendue permet au film d’être diffusé en Europe et en Amérique du Nord. Son succès public et critique ouvre les portes de l’Occident au cinéma japonais et permet à d’autres cinéastes japonais d’obtenir une reconnaissance internationale. Des années 1950 au début des années 1960, Kurosawa réalise environ un film par an, dont Vivre (生きる, Ikiru, 1952), Les Sept Samouraïs (七人の侍, Shichinin no samurai, 1954) et Le Garde du corps (用心棒, Yōjinbō, 1961). Au début des années 1970, il devient beaucoup moins prolifique, mais ses œuvres tardives — dont Kagemusha, l’Ombre du guerrier (影武者, Kagemusha, 1980) et Ran (乱, 1985) — continuent de remporter des prix, dont la Palme d’or au Festival de Cannes pour Kagemusha.

En 1990, il reçoit l’Oscar d’honneur décerné par l’Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences «pour l’ensemble de ses réalisations qui ont inspiré, ravi, enrichi et diverti le public mondial et influencé les cinéastes du monde entier». En 1999, il est nommé à titre posthume «Personnalité asiatique du siècle» dans la catégorie «Arts, littérature, et culture» par le magazine Asiaweek et CNN, présenté comme «l’une des cinq personnes ayant le plus contribué à l’épanouissement de l’Asie durant les cent dernières années».

Kurosawa naît le 23 mars 1910 dans le quartier de Higashiōi (arrondissement de Shinagawa) à Tokyo. Son père Isamu, descendant d’une famille de samouraïs de la préfecture d’Akita, est directeur de l’école secondaire de l’Institut d’éducation physique de l’armée, tandis que sa mère vient d’une famille de marchands d’Osaka. Il est le benjamin d’une lignée de sept enfants. Deux d’entre eux sont presqu’adultes à sa naissance, et une de ses sœurs meurt peu de temps après. Kurosawa ne grandit alors qu’avec trois de ses frères et sœurs.

Source: Article "Akira Kurosawa" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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黑澤明

biography: 黑澤明（Akira Kurosawa）出生於東京都荏原郡大井町 1150 番地（現在的品川區東大井三丁目 18 番附近）。父親黑澤勇，母親黑澤縞的第四個兒子，也是四男四女的兄妹中最末的一個。初中畢業後，黑澤明熱衷於繪畫，並立志當一名畫家 ，由於受到哥哥突然自殺的影響，1934 年黑澤明進入 PCL 電影公司（東寶電影的前身）考取了助理導演，拜導演山本嘉次郎為師，學習導演和編劇。黑澤明稱他為一生之中最好的老師。在老師的教導和幫助下，黑澤明得到了真正的鍛鍊，從第三副導演晉升為第一副導演，並能勝任 B 班導演。之後又以劇作家的身份發表了，《達摩寺裏的德國人》，《孽慾家族》和《雪》。得到了廣泛的好評。1943 年已有多年經驗的資深助理導演和寫了十幾個劇本的知名青年劇作家黑澤明獨立執導了處女作《姿三四郎》，一舉成名，與《海港花盛開》的導演木下惠介同被視為日本電影的新希望。1948 年，黑澤明再執導筒，執意啟用三船敏郎擔任《酩酊天使》的男主角，從此，黑澤明和三船敏郎開啟了“黑澤明黃金時代”，成為日本最強的電影拍檔。截至《紅鬍子》為止的 17 年間，由黑澤明導演、三船敏郎擔綱的作品包括《羅生門》、《白痴》、《七武士》、《生之慾》、《蜘蛛巢城》、《大鏢客》和《天國與地獄》等片。1950 年拍攝的《羅生門》，翌年在威尼斯國際電影節上獲得最高獎項——金獅獎，奧斯卡金像獎最佳外國語片獎。從此，黑澤明聞名於世界影壇，三船敏郎也先後以《大鏢客》、《紅鬍子》獲得威尼斯電影節男主角獎，兩人也因而在日本影壇建立了“國際的黑澤，世界的三船”的稱號。1960 年後半年到 1970 年初期，是黑澤明創作的低潮期，他和三船敏郎的關係突然決裂，從此，兩人不再跟對方説話，也沒有再合作。1970 年，他根據山本週五郎的小説《沒有季節的城市》改編的電影在票房上失利，黑澤明甚至因而企圖自殺。1975 年他導演的日俄合資電影《德蘇烏紮啦》先後得到莫斯科影展金牌獎和奧斯卡最佳外語片獎。1980 年的《影子武士》獲得戛納電影節金棕櫚獎。1990 年，這位“黑澤天皇”成為奧斯卡歷史上第一個獲得終身成就獎的亞洲電影人。1998 年，一代大師黑澤明的逝世標誌著大製片廠時代的傳統電影正在漸漸地退出歷史舞台，向現代電影觀念靠攏，從此揭開了日本電影時代更遞的一幕。

Akira Kurosawa

biography: Si Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明) ay isang direktor at pintor mula sa Hapon na nagdirek ng tatlumpung pelikula sa isang karera na sumasaklaw sa loob ng limang dekada. Siya ay malawak na itinuturing bilang isa sa mga pinakadakilang at pinaka-maimpluwensyang direktor sa kasaysayan ng pelikula. Nagpakita siya ng isang matapang, dinamikong istilo, malakas na naiimpluwensyahan ng Kanluraning sinehan ngunit naiiba dito; kasangkot siya sa lahat ng aspeto ng paggawa ng pelikula. Pumasok si Kurosawa sa industriya ng pelikulang Hapon noong 1936, kasunod ng isang maikling panahon bilang isang pintor.

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أكيرا كوروساوا
อะกิระ คุโระซะวะ
黑澤明
Kurosawa Akira
아키라 구로사와
쿠로사와 아키라
아키라 쿠로사와
آکیرا کوروساوا

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Ran” (1985).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～乱

title: Kurosawa

overview: Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

title: A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies

overview: A Documentary in 10 parts covering the film making of Kurosawa around the theme of making the perfect movie or as he says: A Beautiful Movie.

original_title: 黒澤明からのメッセージ～美しい映画を～

title: Making of Ran

overview: Behind the scenes of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, produced by Kurosawa Productions.

title: A. K.

overview: An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

title: Making of 'Dreams'

overview: This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.

original_title: 映画の肖像  黒澤明 大林宣彦 映画的対話 MAKING OF 'DREAMS'

title: Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema

overview: Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to his films and his various film activities.

original_title: わが映画人生　黒澤明監督編

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the  Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Throne of Blood" (1957).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～蜘蛛巣城

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～隠し砦の三悪人

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～影武者

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～どん底

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo" (1961).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～用心棒

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～天国と地獄

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～七人の侍

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～椿三十郎

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～どですかでん

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～悪い奴ほどよく眠る

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～野良犬

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for  the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～酔いどれ天使

title: The World of Kazuo Miyagawa

overview: Renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa collaborated with a number of great Japanese filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Yasujiro Ozu. The following excerpts from the Japanese television documentary THE WORLD OF KAZUO MIYAGAWA explore Miyagawa and Kurosawa’s working relationship on RASHOMON.

title: What Is Cinema?

overview: Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.

title: In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki

overview: An hour-long conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki which took place in Kurosawa's home near Mt. Fuji.

original_title: 映画に恋して愛して生きて 黒澤明と宮崎駿

title: Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

overview: Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.

original_title: Babenco - Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer: Parou

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～生きる

title: Searching For Kurosawa

overview: Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades later. Now, with the rediscovered clips and Mitsuhiko’s own recollections, the film pieces together an intimate portrait of cinema’s “Emperor,” revealing how a young cinephile’s passion helped preserve invaluable fragments of film history. In the course of unearthing lost footage, Kawamura’s life takes an ironic course; he loved movies so much that his life became a movie.

title: Kurosawa's Way

overview: Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

title: Morceaux de Cannes

overview: We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censorship. And yet, Emmanuel Barnault's "Morceaux de Cannes" (Pieces of Cannes), by this leading expert on Italian and French cinema, convinces us otherwise. The third largest event in the world (after the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup) reveals its secrets only sparingly, as this film attests. The result of passionate research in the INA archives, these 52 minutes, without interviews or voice-over narration, string together rare and sometimes previously unseen footage. Taken together, they tell a surprising, original, and heartwarming story of the Festival. On the beach, on a street corner, in a restaurant, or in the privacy of a hotel room, these forgotten archives summon the greatest filmmakers, actors, and actresses of the last seventy years, from Jean Cocteau to David Lynch, for an anthology of the Festival's history.

title: Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Red Beard'

overview: Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Red Beard" (1965).

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴 赤ひげ

title: Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

overview: A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

title: Seven Samurai

overview: 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, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

title: The Hidden Fortress

overview: In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: Seven Samurai

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: Rashomon

overview: Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

title: Rashomon

title: Rashomon

title: Stray Dog

overview: A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

title: Stray Dog

title: I Live in Fear

overview: An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.

title: I Live in Fear

title: Throne of Blood

overview: Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

title: Throne of Blood

title: Ikiru

overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

title: Throne of Blood

title: Ikiru

title: Ikiru

title: Red Beard

overview: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

title: Throne of Blood

title: Rhapsody in August

overview: An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.

title: Rhapsody in August

title: Ran

overview: Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

title: Ran

title: Ran

title: Yojimbo

overview: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

title: Yojimbo

title: Yojimbo

title: Yojimbo

title: Kagemusha

overview: Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

title: Sanjuro

overview: In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

title: Kagemusha

title: Sanjuro

title: Kagemusha

title: Sanjuro

title: The Idiot

overview: A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.

title: The Idiot

title: Drunken Angel

overview: In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

title: The Bad Sleep Well

overview: In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

title: Drunken Angel

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: Scandal

overview: A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

title: High and Low

overview: A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

title: High and Low

title: The Lower Depths

overview: Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

title: The Lower Depths

title: The Lower Depths

title: Dreams

overview: Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

title: Dersu Uzala

overview: A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

title: Dodes'ka-den

overview: On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

title: Dodes'ka-den

title: Sanshiro Sugata

overview: A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guard challengers—including a deadly duel—while falling for his vanquished opponent’s daughter.  Based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita, son of Tomita Tsunejirō, the earliest disciple of judo.

title: Madadayo

overview: In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

title: The Sea Is Watching

overview: O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.

title: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

overview: A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.

title: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

title: No Regrets for Our Youth

overview: After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.

title: No Regrets for Our Youth

title: No Regrets for Our Youth

title: The Quiet Duel

overview: A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.

title: The Quiet Duel

title: One Wonderful Sunday

overview: Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.

title: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

overview: A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an American prizefighter and later facing vengeful karate brothers. As rival schools and public spectacle push him toward violence, he must reconcile strength with restraint and the true spirit of his art.

title: The Most Beautiful

overview: Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.” Led by Tsuru Watanabe, they fight fatigue and setbacks to keep their line moving—even when duty collides with grief.

title: The Last Princess

overview: After the Akizuku clan fall in defeat to rival clan Yamana, Princess Yuki and General Rokurota take cover in a hidden fortress, along with their clan and gold treasury. Fortuitously stumbling into the hideaways, brash young miner Takezo and his bumbling sidekick Shinhachi hatch a daring plan to help transport the gold out of enemy terrain – in exchange for a share of the stash, of course. With assassins hot in pursuit, Yuki disguises as a male and ventures into the real world with Rukurota and her peasant companions, getting her first taste of danger, toil, and budding romance with the strong-minded and willful Takezo.

title: Vendetta of a Samurai

overview: Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

original_title: 荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻

title: Wrestling-Ring Festival

title: Avalanche

overview: The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.

title: Saga of the Vagabonds

overview: Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.

title: Tsubaki Sanjuro

overview: "Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!

title: Sanshiro Sugata

overview: Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.

title: Horse

overview: Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.

title: Composition Class

overview: Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako's further education.

title: Tojuro's Love

overview: A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels the limits to his acting when he sees his rival troupe put on a new type of play featuring its star, Nakamura. He has the famous Chikamatsu write a new play but cannot get used to the character he is to play in it.

title: Advance Patrol

overview: In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...

original_title: 日露戦争勝利の秘史　敵中横断三百里

title: Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

title: Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

title: Enoken's Surprising Life

title: Enoken’s Shrewd Period

title: Currents of Youth

overview: It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less assertive as his bride.

title: Easy Alley

title: Subterranean Heat

title: The Admirable Isshin Tasuke!

title: Japanese Women's Textbook

title: Runaway Train

overview: A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

title: Dora-heita

overview: A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.

title: Song of the Horse

overview: Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth and training to the Japan Derby—framed by a grandfather’s narration to his grandson about the fading bond between people and horses.

title: Vanished Enlisted Man

overview: In June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military academy, was assigned as the captain of a sentry patrol in Beiman, which was located on the opposite side of the Heilongjiang River from the Semidomka region of the Soviet Union. His predecessor, Lieutenant Kishi (Kawamura Kenichiro), a mild-mannered middle-aged man, had earned the trust of his men and the villagers by relaxing his military duties. However, newly appointed Lieutenant Kagawa thinks that Kishi's way of doing things is sloppy and begins to train the soldiers furiously in order to teach them a lesson.

title: Seven Samurai

title: Living

overview: London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.

title: Snow Trail

overview: Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.

title: Fencing Master

overview: Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.

title: World of Love

overview: A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died,  frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing.  While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.

title: The Fencing Master

overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.

title: Highest 2 Lowest

overview: When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

title: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

overview: A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.

title: The Portrait

overview: The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

title: Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn

original_title: 戦国群盗伝　後篇　暁の前進

title: Jiruba no Tetsu

title: Dreams

title: Kagemusha

title: Ran

title: Ikiru

overview: In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.

title: The Magnificent Seven

overview: Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

title: Red Beard

title: Wings of Victory

title: Beyond Love and Hate

overview: A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth, but the police give chase and he must flee into the mountains.

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: Sword for Hire

overview: Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.

title: Kagemusha

title: Last Man Standing

overview: John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.

title: High and Low

overview: At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and that the ransom demanded is near the amount Gondo has raised for a critical business deal. Gondo is prepared to pay the ransom - that is, until he learns that the kidnappers have mistakenly abducted not Gondo's son, but the child of Gondo's chauffeur. Now Gondo must decide whether the other man's child is equally worth saving.

title: The Magnificent Seven

overview: An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

title: Stray Dog

overview: When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.

title: Jakoman and Tetsu

overview: In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

title: Stray Dog

title: High and Low

title: Madadayo

title: The Last Day of Hsianyang

overview: The Three Kingdoms period begins as the walled fortress of Hsin Yang falls to invaders. Centered around this historical event, The Last Days of Hsin Yang follows the escape of the prince of Hsin Yang as he hides with a small family and escapes from the sacked and burning city. Epic battle scenes employ hundreds of extras, and forest swordplay is reminiscent of House of Flying Daggers.

title: A Fistful of Dollars Remake

overview: Remake of the western A Fistful of Dollars - the story of a wandering gunfighter with no name who plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

title: High and Low

title: Red Beard

title: Scandal

title: The Most Beautiful

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: Play of the Week: Rashomon

overview: Set in ancient Japan, Rashomon follows the aftermath of a bandit’s attack on a warrior and his wife, as the bandit, the wife, the husband, and a woodcutter each offer different versions of what happened. Directed for "Play of the Week" by Sidney Lumet, the production uses the story’s shifting testimonies to examine truth, self-image, violence, and moral uncertainty.

title: Rhapsody in August

title: The Den of Beasts

title: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

title: The Outrage

overview: At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector  -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their recounting, the three explore the conflicting testimonies of the parties involved in the crimes. Disconcerting new questions arise with each different version of the event.

title: Dodes'ka-den

title: Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf

title: The Lower Depths

title: One Wonderful Sunday

title: Saga of the Vagabonds

title: Madadayo

title: A Fistful of Dollars

overview: The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

title: Escape at Dawn

overview: Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her.

title: The Idiot

title: Dersu Uzala

title: Four Love Stories

overview: Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.

title: Lady From Hell

overview: Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are against the T-Men organization. Mibu whats to kill all of the T-Men one-by-one.

title: My Wonderful Yellow Car

title: Enoken’s Ten Millions

overview: Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song.

title: Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

overview: The story picks up from Part 1 as Enoken's young scion forsakes his wealth and takes a department store job – in drag and sometimes blackface – to prove to the girl of his dreams that he be a hard-working, serious man.

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: Jakoman and Tetsu

overview: In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

title: Paradise of the Virgin Flowers

title: Roppa's Honeymoon

overview: A Kajirô Yamamoto directed comedy starring Roppa Furukawa.

title: Horse

title: Avalanche

title: Those Who Make Tomorrow

overview: In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them strike for better conditions. As their conservative father opposes their activism, his own dismissal forces him to confront the realities of class struggle and join their fight for a fairer future. Now considered a lost film, Those Who Make Tomorrow was produced by Toho to promote unionization during Japan’s Allied Occupation.

title: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

title: The Beautiful Hawk

overview: One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version

title: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

overview: Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s become a living hell, plagued by feuding father and son yakuza as well as the younger crime boss’s bodyguard, scruffy, smart-mouthed, cash-hungry Yojimbo of legend.

title: Tokyo Rhapsody

title: A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again

overview: Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals. Based on a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya, there were originally two parts to the film (If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again), both supposed to be 85 minutes, but apparently what we have now is this 103-minute amalgam of the two.

original_title: 良人の貞操: 春が来てまた秋が来たら

title: Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

original_title: エノケンのちゃっきり金太　後篇　第三話　帰りは怖いの巻　第四話　まてば日和の巻

title: Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way

overview: A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

original_title: エノケンのちゃっきり金太

title: A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again

original_title: 良人の貞操: た秋が来たら

title: A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes

original_title: 良人の貞操: 前篇 春来れば

title: Flirtation in Spring

overview: Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

title: Legacy of the 500,000

overview: During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now working as a business executive. He meets Mintsura Gunji, the boss of a large company, who offers him to go to the Philippines and bring back the gold.

title: At the Gate of the Ghost

overview: In this worthy adaptation of the Japanese film Rashomon, a young monk is left to determine the truth behind three competing perspectives after a bandit's disturbing murder trial.

original_title: อุโมงค์ผาเมือง

title: Enoken's Cropped Hair

overview: Enoken's pickpocket Kinta (returned from the Chakkiri Kinta movies) finds some unexpected trouble: a stolen diamond necklace he just can't seem to get rid of!

title: The Monkey King

overview: A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mission to prevent a demonic resurrection. As Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) fight their way to their goal, their path is fraught with internal strife.

title: Runaway Train

title: Image: Kurosawa's Continuity

overview: A 43-minute video piece reconstructing Kagemusha through Akira Kurosawa's paintings and sketches.

title: Image: Kurosawa's Continuity

title: Return of the Seven

overview: Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico.

title: Guns of the Magnificent Seven

overview: When Mexican revolutionary leader Quintero is left to rot in jail by the forces of President Diaz, it's up to his subordinate, Max, to bust him out. With $600 in hand, he crosses the border into America and hires Chris Adams, a mercenary of considerable skill, who uses the rest of the cash on more hired guns. After the team is rounded out by experts on close-combat fighting, explosives, and knife-throwing, they set off to free Quintero.

title: The Magnificent Seven Ride!

overview: Marshal Chris Adams turns down a friend's request to help stop the depredations of a gang of Mexican bandits. When his wife is killed by bank robbers and his friend is killed capturing the last thief, Chris feels obligated to take up his friend's cause and recruits a writer and five prisoners to destroy the desperadoes.

title: Battle Beyond the Stars

overview: A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

title: Song of the Horse

title: After the Rain

overview: A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.

title: Dreams

title: The Draft!

overview: 5 student. An old villa. Old well. Forbidden room. Dark secret of the past. A seemingly omnipotent evil. Survival is the key. Let the battle of wits begins...

title: After the Rain

title: A. K.

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～乱

title: Kurosawa

original_title: 黒澤明からのメッセージ～美しい映画を～

title: Making of Ran

title: A. K.

title: Making of 'Dreams'

title: Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema

original_title: わが映画人生　黒澤明監督編

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～蜘蛛巣城

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～隠し砦の三悪人

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～影武者

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～どん底

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～用心棒

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～椿三十郎

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～天国と地獄

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～七人の侍

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～どですかでん

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～野良犬

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～悪い奴ほどよく眠る

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～酔いどれ天使

title: The World of Kazuo Miyagawa

title: What Is Cinema?

original_title: 映画に恋して愛して生きて 黒澤明と宮崎駿

title: Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～生きる

title: Searching For Kurosawa

title: Kurosawa's Way

title: Morceaux de Cannes

original_title: 黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴 赤ひげ

title: Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

title: Seven Samurai

title: Seven Samurai

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: The Hidden Fortress

title: Rashomon

title: Rashomon

title: Rashomon

title: Stray Dog

title: Stray Dog

title: I Live in Fear

title: I Live in Fear

title: Throne of Blood

title: Throne of Blood

title: Ikiru

title: Throne of Blood

title: Ikiru

title: Ikiru

title: Throne of Blood

title: Red Beard

title: Rhapsody in August

title: Rhapsody in August

title: Ran

title: Ran

title: Ran

title: Yojimbo

title: Yojimbo

title: Yojimbo

title: Yojimbo

title: Sanjuro

title: Kagemusha

title: Kagemusha

title: Kagemusha

title: Sanjuro

title: Sanjuro

title: The Idiot

title: The Idiot

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: Drunken Angel

title: Drunken Angel

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: The Bad Sleep Well

title: Scandal

title: High and Low

title: High and Low

title: The Lower Depths

title: The Lower Depths

title: The Lower Depths

title: Dreams

title: Dersu Uzala

title: Dodes'ka-den

title: Dodes'ka-den

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: The Sea Is Watching

title: Madadayo

title: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

title: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

title: No Regrets for Our Youth

title: No Regrets for Our Youth

title: No Regrets for Our Youth

title: The Quiet Duel

title: The Quiet Duel

title: One Wonderful Sunday

title: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

title: The Most Beautiful

title: The Last Princess

title: Vendetta of a Samurai

original_title: 荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻

title: Wrestling-Ring Festival

title: Avalanche

title: Saga of the Vagabonds

title: Tsubaki Sanjuro

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: Horse

title: Composition Class

title: Tojuro's Love

title: Advance Patrol

original_title: 日露戦争勝利の秘史　敵中横断三百里

title: Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

title: Easy Alley

title: Enoken's Surprising Life

title: Enoken’s Shrewd Period

title: Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

title: Currents of Youth

title: Subterranean Heat

title: Japanese Women's Textbook

title: The Admirable Isshin Tasuke!

title: Runaway Train

title: Dora-heita

title: Song of the Horse

title: Vanished Enlisted Man

title: Seven Samurai

title: Living

title: Snow Trail

title: Fencing Master

title: World of Love

title: The Fencing Master

title: Highest 2 Lowest

title: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

title: The Portrait

original_title: 戦国群盗伝　後篇　暁の前進

title: Jiruba no Tetsu

title: Ran

title: Kagemusha

title: Dreams

title: Ikiru

title: The Magnificent Seven

title: Red Beard

title: Wings of Victory

title: Beyond Love and Hate

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: Sword for Hire

title: Kagemusha

title: The Magnificent Seven

title: Last Man Standing

title: High and Low

title: Stray Dog

title: Jakoman and Tetsu

title: Stray Dog

title: High and Low

title: Madadayo

title: The Last Day of Hsianyang

title: A Fistful of Dollars Remake

title: High and Low

title: Red Beard

title: Scandal

title: The Most Beautiful

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: Play of the Week: Rashomon

title: Rhapsody in August

title: The Den of Beasts

title: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two

title: The Outrage

title: Dodes'ka-den

title: The Lower Depths

title: One Wonderful Sunday

title: Saga of the Vagabonds

title: Madadayo

title: A Fistful of Dollars

title: Escape at Dawn

title: The Idiot

title: Dersu Uzala

title: Four Love Stories

title: Lady From Hell

title: My Wonderful Yellow Car

title: Enoken’s Ten Millions

title: Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

title: Sanshiro Sugata

title: Jakoman and Tetsu

title: Paradise of the Virgin Flowers

title: Roppa's Honeymoon

title: Horse

title: Avalanche

title: Those Who Make Tomorrow

title: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

title: The Beautiful Hawk

title: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

title: Tokyo Rhapsody

original_title: 良人の貞操: 春が来てまた秋が来たら

original_title: エノケンのちゃっきり金太　後篇　第三話　帰りは怖いの巻　第四話　まてば日和の巻

original_title: エノケンのちゃっきり金太

title: A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again

original_title: 良人の貞操: た秋が来たら

title: A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes

original_title: 良人の貞操: 前篇 春来れば

title: Flirtation in Spring

title: Legacy of the 500,000

title: At the Gate of the Ghost

original_title: อุโมงค์ผาเมือง

title: Enoken's Cropped Hair

title: The Monkey King

title: Runaway Train

title: Image: Kurosawa's Continuity

title: Image: Kurosawa's Continuity

title: Return of the Seven

title: Guns of the Magnificent Seven

title: The Magnificent Seven Ride!

title: Battle Beyond the Stars

title: Song of the Horse

title: After the Rain

title: Dreams

title: The Draft!

title: After the Rain