Akira Kurosawa Movies

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

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...

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

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

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,...

Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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

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.

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

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

Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades...

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...

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...