Akira Kurosawa Japan
Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1954)
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Ran SEALED NEW OOP RARE HK DVD w/hologram Akira Kurosawa Japan Classic King Lear $25.49 |
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Japan Movie: Sugata Sanshiro II(R0, 1945) DVD/Eng Sub/Akira Kurosawa $5.99 |
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RAN - NEW DVD - NAKADAI TATSUYA & KUROSAWA AKIRA JAPAN MOVIE ENG SUB R3 $12.99 |
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Scandal NEW PAL Classic DVD Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune Japan $22.99 |
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oop SEVEN SAMURAI dvd CRITERION COLLECTION Toshiro Mifune/Akira Kurosawa, japan $24.99 |
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Not Yet NEW PAL Arthouse DVD Akira Kurosawa Tatsuo Matsumura Kyôko Kagawa Japan $30.99 |
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The Silent Duel NEW PAL Classic DVD Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune Japan $24.99 |
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Ran NEW Arthouse Blu-Ray DVD Akira Kurosawa Japan $22.99 |
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Kurosawa (Film Music of Akira Kurosawa) $43.93 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.... |
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HIGH AND LOW(AKIRA KUROSAWA) CD ALBUM... |
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Ran (StudioCanal Collection) [Blu-ray] $20.44 As critic Roger Ebert observed in his original review of Ran, this epic tragedy might have been attempted by a younger director, but only the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, who made the film at age 75, could bring the requisite experience and maturity to this stunning interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. It's a film for the ages--one of the few genuine screen masterpieces--and arguably serv... |
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) $9.75 "Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." This is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese se... |
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams $14.98 Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/31/2005 Rating: Nr... |
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Tora! Tora! Tora! $7.24 "Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." This is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production (the Japanese se... |
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Something Like An Autobiography $6.95 Translated by Audie E. Bock."A first rate book and a joy to read.... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefs on the primacy of a good script, on scriptwriting as an essential tool for directors, on directing actors, on camera ... |
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The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated: With a New Epilogue $23.50 Here is a chance to read a terrific study of Kurosawa's films by the foremost critic of Japanese cinema and a man who had a personal acquaintance with the filmmaker. Newly revised and updated, this classic study now covers all of Kurosawa's films, surveying an extraordinary 50 year career. If you have any interest in Japanese cinema or in the art of movies in general, you can't go wrong viewi... |
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Remaking Kurosawa $85 Through the lens of Akira Kurosawa's films, Martinez dissects the human tendency to make connections in a pioneering attempt to build a bridge out of diverse materials: the anthropology of Japan, film studies, and postmodern theory. |
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Akira Kurosawa $50 This book is in New - Excellent condition |
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Akira Takasaki (Japan) $49.99 Akira Takasaki (Japan) |
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams from Warner Bros. $19.95 Academy Award-winning director Akira Kurosawa ("The Seven Samurai," "Ran"), whose cinematic genius has inspired such classic films as "Star Wars" and "The Magnificent Seven," presents his 28th, and most personal, film. Visually splendid, Kurosawa's film c |
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The First Films of Akira Kurosawa [Criterion Collection] [4 Discs] - $54.99 Includes:Sanshiro Sugata (1943) The Most Beautiful (1944) The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945) Sanshiro Sugata 2 (1945) Sanshiro Sugata This first effort by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was originally released as Sanshiro Sugata . The film, made under reasonably smooth conditions despite the war, is based on a best-selling novel about the creation of Judo. Most of the film explores the relationship between the creator of this form of self-defense and his faithful protege. In addition to establishing the reputation of Kurosawa, the film made a popular star of Susumu Fujita. Sanshiro Sugata was remade by Shigeo Tanaka in 1955 and again by Seiichuro Uchikawa ten years later. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi The Most Beautiful Following up on his successful directorial debut, soon-to-be cinematic master Akira Kurosawa helms this war-era melodrama about female factory workers dutifully toiling for the greater good of the Imperial war effort. Under the watchful eye of their paternalistic factory manager (played by Kurosawa regular Takeshi Shimura), the young women workers fight through their own trials and tribulations to produce high-quality optical equipment factory under extremely spartan, almost militaristic conditions. One lass (Takako Irie) gets ill and is forced to convalesce over her own objections. Another insists on continuing with her work after falling and breaking her leg. Still another is desperately trying to hide her tuberculosis so she can stay on the assembly line. The shift leader (Yoko Yaguchi), whose mother is dying at home with no one to care for her, struggles to set a good example for her underlings and struggles to find a mislaid half-finished lens. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail Akira Kurosawa's Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail was put together at the last minute when Kurosawa's plan to direct a costume picture called Doko Kono Yari fell through (the producer couldn't get any horses!) Utilizing the costumes, sets and actors already commissioned, Kurosawa spent one long evening writing a screenplay based on the old Kabuki piece Kanjincho. The central character, a dimwitted porter who almost causes the film's plot to go awry, was played by Enoken, a stage actor and longtime personal favorite of Kurosawa's. Originally titled Tora no o o fumu Otokotachi, Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail was impressive enough for English-filmmaker Michael Powell to request permission to remake it on a larger scale (he never did). Completed in 1945, the film was not generally released until 1952. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi Sanshiro Sugata 2 This 1945 Japanese film by renowned director Akira Kurosawa, is a sequel to its better known predecessor, Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Both concern the relationship between Shogoro Yano (Denjiro Okochi), the founder of the martial arts discipline of Judo, and Sanshiro Sugata (Susumu Fujita), one of his principal students. Like many such relationships, this one is shown to be a blend of the spi |
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Postwar Kurosawa Box [Criterion Collection] [5 Discs] - $59.99 Includes:No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) One Wonderful Sunday (1947) Scandal (1950) The Idiot (1951) Record of a Living Being (1955) No Regrets for Our Youth Based on the Takikawa incident of 1933, in which a prominent professor was forced out of his position by the government for his leftist views, Akira Kurosawa directs this socially minded tale about a pure-hearted lass coming to terms with the corrupt nature of the world. Though professor Yagihara (played by silent film star Denjiro ... |
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Films of Akira Kurosawa, by Richie, Expanded and Updated 3rd Edition $23.96 This book is in New - Excellent condition |
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intrfc BRKT- AKIRA 70in $90.99 intrfc BRKT- AKIRA 70in |
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Orchestral Works Of Akira Nishimura $17.99 Orchestral Works Of Akira Nishimura |
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Music Of Akira Miyoshi IV $17.99 Music Of Akira Miyoshi IV |
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Bome: Volume 26 Yano Takumi's Akira PVC Figure $34.99 Mon-sieur Bome Collection Volume 26: Yano Takumi's Akira PVC Figure Imported from Japan! This is the 26th release in Monsier Bome's world-renowned collection! A famous Japanese sculptor, Bome is regarded as a "fine artist" by his many fans, and even hosted an exhibit of his works in early 2001 in Paris, France! Based on a design by Sakura Wars artist Yano Takumi, this figure is a great addition to any fan of the Bome! |
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Scandal - Subtitle $19.99 Released in Japan as Shubun, Scandal was the eleventh film directed by Akira Kurosawa (it was produced just prior to his more famous Rashomon). The director described it as a "protest" film about press journalism. The film sets forth the theory that the postwar Japanese press was too free in its insinuations, and that personal privacy had been sacrificed for the sake of sensationalism (The more things change...) Based on a story related to Kurosawa at a bar (!), the film traces the tragedy that results when a prominent lawyer is skewered by the press. Scandal ends with the hospital death of the lawyer's daughter--which didn't happen in the real-life anecdote. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Kagemusha (Criterion Collection / 1980 / DVD) $29.95 Synopsis: In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career—the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic that is also a somber meditation on the nature of power. The Criterion Collection is proud to present Kagemusha for the first time in its full-length version. Format: DVD Color: Color Rating: PG Genre: Drama Runtime: 162 minutes Year: 1980 Release Date: 3-29-2005 (DVD) |
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Ran - Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3 $34.99 Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three sons. In his dotage, he falls prey to the false flattery of his treacherous sons (Akira Terao and Jinpachi Nezu), while banishing his youngest son (Daisuke Ryu), the only member of the family who loves him enough to tell him the unvarnished truth. Thanks to his foolish pride, his domain collapses under its own weight as the sons battle each other over total control. Kurosawa's first film in five years, Ran had been in the planning stages for twice that long; Kurosawa had storyboarded the project with a series of vivid color paintings that have since been published in book form in England. The battle scenes are staged with such brutal vigor that it's hard to imagine that the director was 75 years old at the time. This 160-minute historical epic won several international awards, but it was not a hit in Japan, and it would be five more years before Kurosawa would be able to finance another picture. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi |
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Samurai Films $13.99 Samurai films are an intriguing combination of frenetic action sequences, moving personal drama, and philosophical observations on loyalty and violence, all set against the spectacular backdrop of pre-industrial Japan. References to samurai films are quite common in film literature, and many mainstream directors, from Hollywood and elsewhere, have been inspired and influenced by them—Lucas by Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress , and the genre of spaghetti westerns by Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Want to see one of the major inspirations for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films? Look no further than Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood . The history of this unique Japanese genre, including its influence on world cinema is covered, as well as analysis of the key films that have defined the genre. Classics such as Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy are included, as well as more recent films, such as Shinobi , Aragami , and The Twilight Samurai . |
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Yojimbo $27 Synopsis: A free-lance samurai works both sides of the street in a village split by warring merchants. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Format: DVD Color: Black and White Rating: Not Rated Genre: Comedy Runtime: 110 Year: 1961 Director: Akira Kurosawa |
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Sanjuro $27 Synopsis: A sloppy-looking samurai helps young warriors expose corrupt elders. Sequel to "Yojimbo." Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Format: DVD Color: Black and White Rating: Not Rated Genre: Comedy Runtime: 96 Year: 1962 Director: Akira Kurosawa |
