Akira Kurosawa
1) Sanjuro
Series
Criterion collection volume 53
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
A group of young men set out to clean up the corruption in their town. They are joined by a scruffy, cynical samurai who doesn't fit their concept of how a warrior should look and act.
2) Madadayo
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
日本語
Description
A Japanese professor, Hyakken Uchida, retires near the end of World War II and learns to come to terms with his approaching death with the help of yearly visits from his former students.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Description
O-Shin, a beautiful young geisha in 19th century Japan, meets a samurai named Fusanosuke, who is on the run for killing a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. Despite the protests of O-Shin's friend, the two fall in love. Eventually he leaves O-Shin, only to return later and reveal that he is engaged. O-Shin, eventually, falls in love again - to Ryosuke, who is also a samurai.
6) Dreams
Publisher
Warner Bros. Inc
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
日本語
Description
Consisting of eight episodes, this video explores the costs of war, the perils of nuclear power and the need to harmonize with nature.
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Series
Publisher
distributed by BCI Eclipse Co
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2006]
Language
日本語
Description
"During a life-saving operation, army surgeon Fujisaki (Mifune) contaminates himself with syphilis, a disease virtually incurable in 1940s Japan. After the war, he returns to work at the hospital maintained by his obstetrician father (Shimura), but agonizes over the disease that threatens to destroy his impending marriage, while simultaneously trying to save other patients' lives -- including the man from whom he contracted the disease"--Container....
10) Rashomon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
Series
Criterion collection volume 52
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
日本語
Description
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness. Includes theatrical trailer, audio commentary, and documentary on the making of the film.
12) Rashōmon
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
日本語
Description
Set in the Middle Ages, the nature of truth and subjective reality are probed in a series of flashbacks from four viewpoints to present the case history of a man's murder and the rape of his wife by a bandit.
13) Dreams: =Yume
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
日本語
Description
Eight episodes exploring many aspects of humankind and man's need to harmonize with nature. Based on Akira Kurosawa's actual dreams.
Series
Criterion collection volume 267
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
日本語
Description
Reconstructing the splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry or war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic about a peasant impersonating a nobleman in battle. Kagemusha is presented in its original 180 min. uncut Japanese version, not the shortened "international version" presented by 20th Century Fox.
Series
Criterion collection volume 319
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
日本語
Description
A young executive hunts down his father's killer. A tale about corruption in the boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan as seen through the rising executive eyes.
16) Stray dog
Series
Criterion collection volume 233
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
日本語
Description
A bad day gets worse for rookie detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo's sweltering streets for the thief, whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, the cop and the criminal's lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami's own dark side --
17) Ikiru
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.