DVD: sanjuro     DVD:       Yojimbo & Sanjuro - Two Films By Akira Kurosawa - Criterion Collection17 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono Criterion, 2007 "Thirty-Year Old, Going On ..." Timeless! These are the films that made Kurosawa loved in the West. Buy this along with "Seven Samurai", and you've got the best of Kurosawa's popular work. Fun, funny, smart, genre-breaking, and genre-making! Fascinating to watch, filled with unfortgettable characters, and all starring Toshiro Mifune! There will be tons of positive reviews, because, throughout time, there will be people discovering ...             Sanjuro - Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine #53)61 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai Criterion, 2007 Great Film The sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo, Sanjuro picks up with our nameless hero in a new town helping to solve another family argument turned violent. Sanjuro in many ways has more happening in it than Yojimbo. Sure there are the great fighting sequences and some truly beautiful landscape shots but there's more direct humor reminiscent of Toshiro in Seven Samurai. Likewise, women have more of an ...             Yojimbo - Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine #52)126 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai Criterion, 2007 Japanese Samurai and American Western Send-Up Yojimbo is Kurosawa's most popular movie both at home and in the West & it is easy to see why. First and foremost, it's just fun. Combining cool, dry wit, black humor and rousing action; even those who don't "get" the mocking of Westerns or Samurai movies will find plenty to enjoy. Shorter than Ran and Seven Samurai, more accessible than Rashomon or Throne of Blood and more exciting than Ikiru ...             Samurai Trilogy Box Set - Criterion Collection57 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada Criterion, 2004 samurai trilogy this movie is very good. i have seen movies of samurai when i was young but this one is great.             Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection111 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki Criterion, 2003 Blood Will Have Blood Another Kurosawa masterpiece. Kurosawa directed four masterpieces in the 1950's: Throne of Blood, Ikiru, Rashomon & Seven Samurai. Throne of Blood is the master director's loose interpretation of MacBeth. Shakespeare's themes of ambition, betrayal, & regicide are brought to Japan's feudal 14th century as a Kurosawan noh play. Kurosawa brilliantly combines innovative and distinctive ...             Sanjuro - Criterion Collection61 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai Criterion, 1999 Great Film The sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo, Sanjuro picks up with our nameless hero in a new town helping to solve another family argument turned violent. Sanjuro in many ways has more happening in it than Yojimbo. Sure there are the great fighting sequences and some truly beautiful landscape shots but there's more direct humor reminiscent of Toshiro in Seven Samurai. Likewise, women have more of an ...             Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics (Seven Samurai / The Hidden Fortress / Yojimbo / Sanjuro) - Criterion ...18 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono Criterion, 2002 Don't pass it up Kurosawa is not just considered a great japanese director - he's considered one of the best the world has known. Samurai are a passion for me anyway - however, kurosawa brings them to life like no other. I sometimes wish he were working today with the technology available, but it's not a degradation of what he did at all. Details he pays attention to are easily missed the first time ...             Kagemusha - Criterion Collection90 reviews Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki Criterion, 2005 Some people Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them Kagamusha is such a physically beautifully film, it's that much more of a shame that the narrative isn't more powerful. In only his third color feature, Kurosawa goes all the way in presenting scene after scene in beautiful vibrant colors that leap off the screen. The colored lighting is a bit artificial but is so effectively used, I couldn't help but nod and smile when I noticed it. While ...             Seven Samurai - 3 Disc Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine # 2)459 reviews Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune Criterion, 2006 Top 10 movie of all time One of the greatest movies of all time just got better. (Better picture quality.) I'm teaching an Introduction to Film class next semester and each week we'll be discussing a different topic in film studies--photography, editing, sound, acting, drama. I'll be using this film to illustrate every single topic, b/c it literally is like a textbook on "how to make a film." I agree with the previous ...             The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection94 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara Criterion, 2001 4 ½ + Stars: Akira Kurosawa's Next JIDAI GEKI Masterpiece... The HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958, aka. Kakushi toride no san akunin) is Akira Kurosawa's first widescreen-shot film and the famed director uses it as if he has been a master of it for many years. In a period where warring clans in Japan, the film is all about loyalty, honor, greed and betrayal but the film is also the most well-spirited, fun-loving samurai adventure that Kurosawa had directed after ...             Harakiri - Criterion Collection50 reviews Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni Criterion, 2005 A Scathing and Devastating indictment of the Way of the Samurai... "Rage when FOCUSED on a Single purpose is a very powerful weapon..." HARAKIRI (1962) (aka. Seppuku) is the award-winning film from Masaki Kobayashi (Samurai Rebellion, Kwaidan) and has been pronounced as Kobayashi's masterpiece by his mentor Kinoshita and as one of the TOP Five Greatest Japanese films ever made. The film was originally titled "Seppuku" in Japan which translates into ritual ...             Stray Dog - Criterion Collection36 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura Criterion, 2004 Good Man, Bad Man Stray Dog is Akira Kurosawa's first fully mature, individual work of art. The very next year, Kurosawa would change cinematic history with Rashomon, the first Asian movie to achieve Western distribution, Kurosawa's first masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made. Stray Dog is not a great movie but a near great & is unmistakably indicative of the masterpieces to come. On the ...             Sanjuro [Region 2]61 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai Great Film The sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo, Sanjuro picks up with our nameless hero in a new town helping to solve another family argument turned violent. Sanjuro in many ways has more happening in it than Yojimbo. Sure there are the great fighting sequences and some truly beautiful landscape shots but there's more direct humor reminiscent of Toshiro in Seven Samurai. Likewise, women have more of an ...             Samurai Rebellion - Criterion Collection36 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa Criterion, 2005 Righteous Rebellion against Tyranny and Injustice... "The Greatest Evil is when Good Men do nothing in the face of Injustice..." SAMURAI REBELLION (1967) is directed by Masaki Kobayashi, the same director responsible for the awesome KWAIDAN and the far superior samurai film "Hara-Kiri". Don't get me wrong, this film is a true emotional achievement by Kobayashi, the drama and intense screenplay is magnificent that even the awesome swordplay ...             Sansho the Bailiff - Criterion Collection43 reviews Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi Criterion Collection, 2007 Brilliant One of the nostra about Japanese film director Kenji Mizoguchi is that he is 'the most Japanese of all filmmakers.' Another is that, compared to his two titanic contemporaries, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa, Mizoguchi was the hardest to pin down in a style or genre. Having just watched his 1954 film Sansho The Bailiff (Sanshô Dayû) I can agree with both of the above sentiments, for ...             Ran - Criterion Collection210 reviews Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao Criterion Collection, 2005 Ran Means Chaos Ran is Kurosawa's final masterpiece and my favorite Kurosawa movie. For me, Ran is more of an experience than a movie. It just seems so "real" to me. Directed when he was 75, the master director presents a cast of thousands and renders a mortal struggle of good and evil, fealty and betrayal, cruelty and kindness, & greed and generosity. An old man who has achieved power through war and ...             The Sword of Doom - Criterion Collection77 reviews Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuzo Kayama Criterion, 2005 The Sword is a Mirror to One's Soul....Know the Sword and you will know the Soul! SWORD OF DOOM (1966, known in Japan as Incident at Daibatsu Pass) is a film directed by Kihachi Okamoto; responsible for acclaimed chambara films such as "Red Lion" and "Zatoichi meets Yojimbo". The film is based on the novel by Kaizan Nakazaro; "Daibatsu Tage", and this film still stands out as one of the most violent, dark epic tale even in today's standards. Please note that the novel has also ...             Yojimbo (Criterion Collection Spine #52)126 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono Criterion, 1999 Japanese Samurai and American Western Send-Up Yojimbo is Kurosawa's most popular movie both at home and in the West & it is easy to see why. First and foremost, it's just fun. Combining cool, dry wit, black humor and rousing action; even those who don't "get" the mocking of Westerns or Samurai movies will find plenty to enjoy. Shorter than Ran and Seven Samurai, more accessible than Rashomon or Throne of Blood and more exciting than Ikiru ...             Rashomon - Criterion Collection143 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô Criterion, 2002 One of the Best This is one of the BEST movies I've ever seen. Although the rape and murder are told from four different perspectives, I left the movie thinking what really happened (that is, what truly happened) was actually yet another story.             Red Beard - Criterion Collection45 reviews Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama Home Vision Entertainment, 2002 Mifune's Greatest Performance? In his last collaboration with Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune gives possibly his best performance ever. This is a tough call to make because so many of his performances are so incredible. Just in his collaborations with Kurosawa he delivered command performances in Red Beard, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. Yuzo Kayama delivers a comparably excellent performance as an ...              search for DVDs akira, bailiff, beard, blood, classics, collection, criterion, disc, doom, edition, films, fortress, harakiri, hidden, kagemusha, kurosawa, rashomon, rebellion, region, remastered, samurai, sanjuro, sansho, seven, spine, stray, sword, throne, trilogy, yojimbo DVD:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Ibogaine Story: Report on the Staten Island Project we recommend Top 10 movie of all time leave a comment home  impressum - about us