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Kanopy
90
8.2
/149246/
80
/2507/
80
/1713/
4.5
/220656/
96
/94/
95
/2190/
97
/21/

Ran (1985)
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.
poster
85
7.9
/40484/
77
/741/
78
/706/
4.2
/43692/
89
/27/
92
/710/
84
/15/

Kagemusha (1980)
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.
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Kanopy
78
7.7
/31989/
77
/667/
77
/526/
4.2
/89237/
67
/30/
86
/799/

Dreams (1990)
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.
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Criterion Channel
77
7.3
/6636/
73
/111/
73
/128/
3.8
/6959/
88
/16/
81
/112/
79
/11/

Madadayo (1993)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
65
6.9
/12181/
69
/295/
64
/173/
3.4
/1593/
62
/13/
85
/466/

To End All Wars (2001)
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
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67
41
6.6
/1456/
64
/19/
67
/25/
3.5
/614/
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/6/
67
/27/
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/7/

Tokyo Eyes (1998)
The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.
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FlixHouse
68
21
7.2
/913/
70
/27/
68
/28/
3.5
/342/
61
/6/

Sword of Desperation (2010)
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, Kanemi received a lenient sentence for his crime and is allowed to return to his clan after only one year of imprisonment. Following his return, Kanemi is faced with the death of his wife, Mutsue. Thereafter, Kanemi lives with and cares for his wife's niece, Satoo, who has secret affections for Kanemi and expresses them by helping change his bleak outlook on life. Meanwhile, Kanemi's develops his unique "bird-catching" sword technique which he will soon put to test in battle for the first time against the fearsome swordsman, Hayatonosho Obiya.
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7.9
/55/
33
/3/

Bicycle (2009)
A co-worker confronts Mamoru on his apparent apathy toward life, and this results in Mamoru leaving his job out of humiliation. Now alone and without work, just as it seems that things could not possibly get worse, parts of Mamoru's bicycle begin to disappear, one by one. In frustration, Mamoru leaves a note for the thief, begging him to just take the whole thing. The note left in response is signed God, leaving Mamoru only more confused. At last, when the only remaining piece of the bicycle is a lonely bell, Mamoru receives an envelope, containing addresses at which each piece of the bicycle might be retrieved.
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8.0
/39/
60
/1/
80
/1/

Cicada (2014)
Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future. These glimpses lead him to a series of cicada shells, which become symbolic of his desire to shed his old self. Though his lineage ends with himself, Jumpei starts anew as a father-figure to his sister's young son.
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2.3
/36/

Karanukan (2017)
N/A
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70
/1/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).
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100
/1/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).
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75
/2/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).
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73
/3/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).
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80
/1/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).
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88
/7/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo" (1961).
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70
/1/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).
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75
/6/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
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80
/1/

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Throne of Blood" (1957).
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9.5
/9/

Persimmon (2011)
Tamotsu is expecting a persimmon to dry and yet he cannot accept that it is time for a man on his deathbed to die. As the persimmon mysteriously, or supernaturally, holds out from drying, so Tamotsu tries his hardest to keep the man alive. Only when Tamotsu has let go can the persimmon take its natural course.
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70
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7.0
/151/
56
/3/
87
/3/

Tora-san Goes North (1987)
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
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6.0
/13/
100
/19/

Through the Night (2002)
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out for profit. Amidst this plan there is discrimination, war and an infatuation between a man and a woman, but like everything around them there and owing to the forces around them, there is as much chance that these may burn to ashes and be destroyed or be the beginning of something new.
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55
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6.7
/145/
43
/3/
55
/6/

A Class to Remember II (1996)
The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.
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Fandor
75
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7.2
/423/
78
/8/
69
/13/
4.0
/2592/

Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012)
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
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Hokori to Gensou (2015)
N/A
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).
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Siberian Express 2 (2001)
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