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Icarus (2017)

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First Cow (2019)

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Long Walk, The (2019)

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Tag / Akira Kurosawa

March 5, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Red Beard (1965)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1965, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
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Kurosawa’s final collab with Mifune yields a near masterpiece about humanity that is beautiful, poetic and enlightening.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

High and Low (1963)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1963, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 2 Comments

Kurosawa’s underrated gem of a masterpiece that is both an emotionally tense domestic drama, and a hot and sweaty police procedural.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Sanjuro (1962)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1962, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
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A lighter if lesser effort by Kurosawa, but it is no less entertaining and darkly comic than its companion piece ‘Yojimbo’ (1961).

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Throne of Blood (1957)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1957, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 5 Comments

Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced take on ‘Macbeth’ is elemental, engrossing and one of the greatest screen adaptations of Shakespeare.  

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 15, 2021March 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

I Live in Fear (1955)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1955, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
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One of Kurosawa’s lesser urban dramas that deals with the trauma and anxiety of nuclear annihilation through the eyes of a paranoid old patriarch.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 13, 2021February 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Seven Samurai (1954)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1954, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 12 Comments

Kurosawa’s magnum opus is a glorious triumph and the standard-bearer for bravura epic filmmaking, still yet to be surpassed.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 9, 2021February 13, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Rashomon (1950)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1950, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 16 Comments

The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawa’s very best.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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February 9, 2021March 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Stray Dog (1949)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1949, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  • 2 Comments

A solid early work by Kurosawa in what is a clever cat-and-mouse chase that leads to an emotional climax.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 14, 2021February 9, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Drunken Angel (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, Kurosawa, Akira
  • 1948, Akira Kurosawa, Japan
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A fiery doctor and an ill gangster form a love-hate bond in Kurosawa’s striking first collab with Toshiro Mifune, a tale of changing times amid out-of-fashion masculine codes of honour.    

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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