| The Most Beautiful | | | Directed by | Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) ( March 23, 1910 - September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics. Work To Western audiences, Kurosawa is perhaps Japans best-known filmmaker...
Akira Kurosawa | | Written by | Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) ( March 23, 1910 - September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics. Work To Western audiences, Kurosawa is perhaps Japans best-known filmmaker...
Akira Kurosawa | | Starring | Yoko Yaguchi
Takashi Shimura (志村 喬 Shimura Takashi, 12 March 1905 - 11 February 1982) is one of the great Japanese actors of the last century. He played the indomitable leader with a strong sense of his own mortality in The Seven Samurai, the dying bureaucrat in Ikiru, the woodcutter in Rashomon...
Takashi Shimura | | Produced by | Motohiko Ito
Jin Usami | | Distributed by | Film Distribution Inc. | | Release date | April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April. Events 1055 - Victor II is consecrated pope 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor 1180 - Frederick Barbarossa issues the Gelnhausen...
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1944 | | Runtime | 85 min. | | Language | The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. The Japanese name for the language is Nihongo (日本語). History and classification Historical linguists agree that Japanese is a Japonic language, but do not agree further about the origin of the Japanese language; there are...
Japanese | | Budget | ? | | IMDb page (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036947/) | The Most Beautiful (Ichiban utsukushiku; aka Most Beautifully) is a See also: 1943 in film 1944 1945 in film 1940s in film years in film film Events Top grossing films North America Going My Way starring Bing Crosby Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Hollywood Canteen A Guy Named Joe The White Cliffs of...
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directed by Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) ( March 23, 1910 - September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics. Work To Western audiences, Kurosawa is perhaps Japans best-known filmmaker...
Akira Kurosawa.
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- "Triumph of The Past" (http://www.alor.org/Triumph%20of%20The%20Past/Kurosawa's%20The%20Most%20Beautiful.htm) a review of The Most Beautiful by Michael Lane
- Brief description of The Most Beautiful (http://www.eurofilmsltd.com/catalog/m/most_beautiful.html)
- Image of the poster for The Most Beautiful (http://www.edogawa-u.ac.jp/~robert/kurop02.html)
| Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 Kurosawa Akira, also 黒沢 明) ( March 23, 1910 - September 6, 1998) was a prominent Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter of films, many of which are considered highly influential worldwide classics. Work To Western audiences, Kurosawa is perhaps Japans best-known filmmaker...
Films by Akira Kurosawa | | Sugata Sanshiro (姿三四郎) is a 1943 movie by director Akira Kurosawa based off a novel by Tomita Tsuneo. See also Judo Links IMDB description Categories: Japanese films | 1943 films | Stub ...
Sanshiro Sugata | The One Most Beautiful | Sanshiro Sugata Part Two (Zoku Sugata Sanshiro; aka Judo Saga II) is a 1945 film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita. External links Sanshiro Sugata Part Two at the Internet Movie Database Sanshiro Sugata Part Two at All Movie Guide. Short...
Sanshiro Sugata Part II | They Who Step on the Tiger's Tail | No Regrets for Our Youth | One Wonderful Sunday | Drunken Angel (酔いどれ天使, Yoidore Tenshi) is a 1948 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It stars Takashi Shimura as an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga, (Toshirô Mifune in his first role working with Kurosawa,) after a...
Drunken Angel | The Quiet Duel | Stray Dog (野良犬 Nora inu) is a 1949 film noir directed by Akira Kurosawa. It tracks the story of Murakami (Toshirô Mifune), a rookie homicide detective who has his gun stolen on a bus in ravished, postwar Tokyo. Soon, victims are found, slain with bullets from Murakamis...
Stray Dog | Scandal | Rashomon (羅生門) is a Japanese motion picture made in 1950 by director Akira Kurosawa. It is one of Kurosawas masterpieces, starring Toshiro Mifune. Based on two stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Rashomon and In a Grove), it describes a crime (a rape and a murder) through the widely...
Rashomon | Hakuchi 白痴 (The Idiot) is a 1951 film by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It is based on a Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel of the same name. Hakuchi was shot in black and white at an aspect ratio of 1.37:1. Originally intended to be a two-part film with...
The Idiot | Ikiru (生きる) is a 1952 black and white movie written and directed by the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The title ikiru translates to to live in English. Ikiru looks at the problem of a bureaucracy in post-war Japan and explores existentialism. Can and does one meaningful...
Ikiru | The Seven Samurai (七人の侍 Shichinin no samurai, 1954) is a movie by Akira Kurosawa starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. The film takes place in war-ridden 16th century Japan, where a village of farmers look for ways to ward off a band of marauding robbers. Since...
The Seven Samurai | Record of a Living Being | Considered part of the film canon, Throne of Blood (1957), original title Kumonosu-jo (Spiders Web Castle), is a film by Akira Kurosawa based on Shakespeares play Macbeth, whose plot it transposes to medieval Japan. Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow. Kurosawa follows the events of Macbeth...
The Throne of Blood | The Lower Depths is perhaps Maxim Gorkys best-known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled Scenes from Russian Life, it depicted a group of lower-class Russians in a lodging house in Volga. Produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on...
The Lower Depths | The Hidden Fortress (Japanese: 隠し砦の三悪人; Kakushi toride no san akunin) is a 1958 film by Akira Kurosawa, Starring the great Japanese actor, Toshirô Mifune and Misa Uehara as general Rokurota Makabe and Princess Yukihime whom it is Makabes mission to help and protect...
The Hidden Fortress | The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is a 1960 film by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It stars Toshirô Mifune as a young man who gets a prominent position in a corrupt postwar Japanese company in order to expose the men responsible for his fathers death...
The Bad Sleep Well | Yojimbo 用心棒 is a 1961 film by Akira Kurosawa, in which a ronin, portrayed by Toshiro Mifune, arrives at a small town with competing crime lords making their money from gambling, and convinces each crime lord to hire him as protection from the other. By careful political manouevring...
Yojimbo | Sanjuro | High and Low (天国と地獄 Tengoku to jigoku) is a 1963 film directed by Akira Kurosawa It tells the story of an executive named Kingo Gondo Toshirô Mifune who mortgages all he has to stage leveraged buyout and gain control of the National Shoe Company, with the...
High and Low | Red Beard (赤ひげ, akahige) is a 1964 film by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in a small town in 19th-century Japan. Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) has been assigned to a rural clinic for his post-graduate medical training under the guidance of Dr...
Red Beard | Dodesukaden is a film by Akira Kurosawa set in a Japanese rubbish dump in the period immediately following World War II. The film focuses on the fantasy life of its characters, including one who pretends to be a tram by following a set route. The film title refers to the...
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Dersu Uzala | Kagemusha (影武者) is a film by Akira Kurosawa. The word is Japanese and means imposter (more literally, shadow warrior). The story is of a man who is taught to pretend being an already dead warlord (based on warlord Takeda Shingen) for the sake of keeping his clan united...
Kagemusha | Ran (乱) (Chaos) is a film by Akira Kurosawa, based on William Shakespeares King Lear but set in Sengoku-era Japan. In the film, the character of King Lear is replaced with Ichimonji Hidetora, the Great Lord, an aging warlord. Instead of daughters, he has sons: Taro, Jiro, and...
Ran | Dreams (aka Akira Kurosawas Dreams, Yume, I Saw a Dream Like This, Konna yume wo mita, Such Dreams I Have Dreamed) is a 1990 portmanteau film based on actual dreams of the films director, Akira Kurosawa. The film is based more on imagery than on dialogue. It consists...
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