Benefit All Mankind The Films of Akira Kurosawa A website celebrating the work of Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa. About Akira Kurosawa Kurosawa's Actors Movie Reviews Latest News DVD Comparisons Image Gallery Further Reading About this website Amazon Store Thanks to Return to front page Contact us Website copyright © Web In Front. Registered trade marks and trade names are copyright of their respective owners. kurosawamovies.com Filmography Sanshiro Sugata (1943) The Most Beautiful (1944) Sanshiro Sugata – Part Two (1945) They Who Step On The Tiger’s Tail (1945) Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) No Regrets For Our Youth (1946) One Wonderful Sunday (1947) Drunken Angel (1948) The Quiet Duel (1949) Stray Dog (1949) Scandal (1950) Rashomon (1950) The Idiot (1951) Ikiru (1952) Seven Samurai (1954) I Live In Fear (1955) Throne Of Blood (1957) The Lower Depths (1957) The Hidden Fortress (1958) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Yojimbo (1961) Sanjuro (1962) High And Low (1963) Red Beard (1965) Dodes'kaden (1970) Dersu Uzala (1975) Kagemusha (1980) Ran (1985) Dreams (1990) Rhapsody In August (1991) Madadayo (1993)

Latest News

November 2009

Criterion to celebrate 100 years of Kurosawa

In celebration of the 100th birthday of our favourite film-maker Criterion is to release a 25-film box set on 8th Dec 2009. Featuring the films he made over the course of his fifty years in movies — from samurai epics to postwar noirs to Shakespeare adaptations — AK 100 is the most complete set of his works ever released, and includes four rare films that have never been available on DVD before.

October 2007

Bo Ying Kurosawa Box Set: in-depth review

The, cough, long-awaited Bo Ying Kurosawa Box Set is given an in-depth review on this website. We were daft enough to spend our money on it, so you didn't have to. "It's a Chinese box set - what did you expect?!" is a good argument, though we weren't quite prepared for the calamity that confronted us... Was it really going to be 20 discs of complete and utter drivel? Or were there any saving graces?

October 2007

Criterion's post-war Kurosawa box set coming January 2008

Criterion release their long- awaited and long-rumoured new Akira Kurosawa box set, Eclipse Series 7: Postwar Kurosawa, on January 15th 2008. The release will be a five-disc set and will contain new region 1 versions of: I Live In Fear, The Idiot, No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday and Scandal. No word yet of running times or extras - hopefully the source materials will be good.

October 2007

Spoof Kurosawa

We were sat there thinking the other day: "you know, there is a teeny bit of a pretentious edge to some of this Kurosawa material - why not make fun of it?" These spoofs are the result. These are ficticious Kurosawa movies that sound like they might be good fun if they existed, or simply loveable digs at current conventions. We hope you enjoy them in the nature they were intended. Email us your own spoofs!

September 2007

First high definition Kurosawa

Studio Canal is the first distributor to release a high definition Kurosawa film. It's a fairly obvious choice - 1985's Ran - and may hopefully be followed by more Kurosawa into high definition. Yojimbo and Sanjuro would benefit from an outing on the new format and we're sure Criterion are capable of something special on high def. Here's to hoping. Hi def Ran - on HD-DVD - is available now from all good shops

Benefit All Mankind The Films of Akira Kurosawa A website celebrating the work of Japanese film-maker Akira Kurosawa. About Akira Kurosawa Kurosawa's Actors Movie Reviews Latest News DVD Comparisons Image Gallery Further Reading About this website Amazon Store Thanks to Return to front page Contact us Website copyright © Web In Front. Registered trade marks and trade names are copyright of their respective owners. kurosawamovies.com Filmography Sanshiro Sugata (1943) The Most Beautiful (1944) Sanshiro Sugata – Part Two (1945) They Who Step On The Tiger’s Tail (1945) Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946) No Regrets For Our Youth (1946) One Wonderful Sunday (1947) Drunken Angel (1948) The Quiet Duel (1949) Stray Dog (1949) Scandal (1950) Rashomon (1950) The Idiot (1951) Ikiru (1952) Seven Samurai (1954) I Live In Fear (1955) Throne Of Blood (1957) The Lower Depths (1957) The Hidden Fortress (1958) The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Yojimbo (1961) Sanjuro (1962) High And Low (1963) Red Beard (1965) Dodes'kaden (1970) Dersu Uzala (1975) Kagemusha (1980) Ran (1985) Dreams (1990) Rhapsody In August (1991) Madadayo (1993)