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Throne of Blood (1957)

Summary: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Release Date: November 22, 1961

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Media Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

8.6 - ZR Rating
110976 votes

Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)

Summary: A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Masato Ide

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company, Twentieth Century Fox, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Fox Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,000,000

International: $ 18,532

8.4 - ZR Rating
216020 votes

Ran (1985)

Summary: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Release Date: June 01, 1985

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Hideo Oguni

, Masato Ide

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace, Nippon Herald Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, CBS/Fox, StudioCanal, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, Wellspring Media

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,135,750

International: $ 28,533

8.4 - ZR Rating
167865 votes

Yojimbo (1961)

Summary: A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Release Date: September 13, 1961

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Sammy, Toho Company

Distributor: Janus Films, Seneca Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

8.3 - ZR Rating
136081 votes

Ikiru (1952)

Summary: A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Release Date: March 25, 1956

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Brandon Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Heron International Company, Media Home Entertainment, Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Image Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 60,239

International: $ 36,063

8.3 - ZR Rating
58616 votes

High and Low (1963)

Summary: An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

Release Date: November 26, 1963

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Ryûzô Kikushima

, Eijirô Hisaita

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company

Distributor: East West Classics, Continental Distributing, Pacific Arts Video, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures, Janus Films, Walter Reade-Sterling, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

8.1 - ZR Rating
488535 votes

Rashomon (1950)

Summary: The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Release Date: December 26, 1951

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûnosuke Akutagawa

, Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei

Distributor: Edward Harrison, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, The Criterion Channel, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 34,571

8.1 - ZR Rating
71991 votes

Sanjuro (1962)

Summary: A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Release Date: May 07, 1963

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûzô Kikushima

, Hideo Oguni

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 8,720

8 - ZR Rating
56542 votes

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Summary: Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Release Date: October 06, 1960

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûzô Kikushima

, Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Albex, Cowboy Pictures, Media Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: English

Domestic: $ 46,808

8 - ZR Rating
41576 votes

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Summary: The Russian army sends an explorer on an expedition to the snowy Siberian wilderness where he makes friends with a seasoned local hunter.

Release Date: December 20, 1977

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Yuriy Nagibin

, Vladimir Arsenev

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: G

Production: Atelier 41, Daiei Studios, Mosfilm

Distributor: Satra Films, New World Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Kino Video, RUSCICO, Rare Films and More, The Criterion Channel, Flicksium

Countries: Japan, Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

7.8 - ZR Rating
82437 votes

Dreams (1990)

Summary: A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

Release Date: August 24, 1990

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Directors: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Akira Kurosawa USA

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,963,207

International: $ 1,006,954

7.6 - ZR Rating
99907 votes

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Summary: Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.

Release Date: October 12, 1960

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: John Sturges

Writers: William Roberts

, Akira Kurosawa

, Walter Bernstein

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Mirisch Company, Alpha Productions

Distributor: United Artists, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Pluto TV, Tubi TV

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

7.5 - ZR Rating
16519 votes

Madadayo (1993)

Summary: Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.

Release Date: April 17, 1993

Genre: Drama

Directors: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Ishirô Honda

, Akira Kurosawa

, Hyakken Uchida

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Daiei, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Genius Products, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, The Miriam Collection, The Weinstein Company, WinStar Cinema

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,900,000

7.1 - ZR Rating
39845 votes

Runaway Train (1985)

Summary: Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.

Release Date: January 17, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Writers: Djordje Milicevic

, Paul Zindel

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Golan-Globus Productions, Northbrook Films

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Viacom, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, TGG Direct, Twilight Time, Kino Lorber, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,683,620

7.1 - ZR Rating
9307 votes

Living (2022)

Summary: In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.

Release Date: November 04, 2022

Genre: Drama

Director: Oliver Hermanus

Writers: Kazuo Ishiguro

, Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: British Film Institute (BFI), County Hall, Film i Väst, Lipsync Productions, Film Four

Countries: United Kingdom, Japan, Sweden

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,038,113

International: $ 9,339,197

7.1 - ZR Rating
7848 votes

The Idiot (1951)

Summary: A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

Release Date: April 30, 1963

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky

, Eijirô Hisaita

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 2 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

7 - ZR Rating
15279 votes

Rhapsody in August (1991)

Summary: Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Release Date: December 20, 1991

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Kiyoko Murata

, Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Feature Film Enterprise II, Kurosawa Production Co., Shochiku

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 516,431

International: $ 1,107

6.9 - ZR Rating
18910 votes

Sanshiro Sugata (1943)

Summary: Sugata, a young man, struggles to learn the nuance and meaning of judo, and in doing so comes to learn something of the meaning of life.

Release Date: April 28, 1974

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Tsuneo Tomita

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

Distributor: International Toho Co. Ltd., The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

6.7 - ZR Rating
360012 votes

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Summary: Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.

Release Date: September 23, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Antoine Fuqua