Rashomon (Essential Art House) (1950)

Ugetsu (1953)

Category: Foreign | Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Ikio Sawamura, Kinuyo Tanaka, Machiko Kyo

Haunting Japanese drama focuses on two peasants who leave their families to find success and wealth in civil war-torn 16th-century Japan. But can their dreams survive the fighting and delusions of lust ... more

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Sansho The Bailiff (1954)

Category: Foreign | Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Kyoko Kagawa, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka

In Kenji Mizoguchi's poetic masterpiece, a young man in feudal Japan--a slave since childhood--plans an escape with his sister to search for his mother, who was sold into prostitution, and his father, ... more

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The First Films Of Akira Kurosawa

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Kunio Mita, Sugisaku Aoyama, Denjiro Okochi

The nascent cinematic style of Akira Kurosawa is evident in "Sanshiro Sugata" (1943), his first outing as director. A 19th-century jujitsu student is engrossed by the disciplines of judo, culminating ... more

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Drunken Angel (1948)

Category: Foreign | Director: Akira Kurosawa | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Sachio Sakai

In this moving, early effort from director/co-writer Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune stars as a sickly criminal who is treated by dedicated doctor Takashi Shimura. Struggling to improve the lives of those ... more

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Stray Dog (1949)

Category: Foreign | Director: Akira Kurosawa | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Keiko Awaji, Takashi Shimura

On the streets of postwar Tokyo, a rookie police detective searches for his missing gun. Gritty Akira Kurosawa drama blends American "film noir" stylings with a look at the moral vacuum that formed in ... more

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Rashomon (Criterion Collection) (1950)

Category: Foreign | Director: Akira Kurosawa | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura

A rape and murder in medieval Japan are recounted in four flashback sequences, as seen through the eyes of the three people involved and a witness to the incident. Each version differs from the others, ... more

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The Seven Samurai (Criterion Collection) (1954)

Category: Foreign | Director: Akira Kurosawa | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kuninori Kodo

Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece stands as one of the greatest action epics ever. The residents of an impoverished village in 16th-century Japan besieged by bandits hire the title warriors to defend them. ... more

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Throne Of Blood (Essential Art House) (1957)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format:

Akira Kurosawa transforms "Macbeth" into an outstanding samurai saga starring Toshiro Mifune as the tragic ruler fated by the forewarnings of three witches. Soaked in eerie atmosphere and brimming with ... more

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Throne Of Blood (1957)

Category: Foreign | Director: Akira Kurosawa | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Seiji Miyaguchi, Akira Kubo

Akira Kurosawa transforms "Macbeth" into an outstanding samurai saga starring Toshiro Mifune as the tragic ruler fated by the forewarnings of three witches. Soaked in eerie atmosphere and brimming with ... more

$39.99