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Top 14 Akira Kurosawa Films & Series Streaming in the UK
Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He…
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Seven
8.6207mFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.
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Ran(1985)
8.2160mIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons.
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Rashomon(1950)
8.188mThree parties and a witness have four versions of a rape/murder in ninth-century Japan.
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Throne of Blood(1957)
8.0110mA war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
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Stray Dog(1949)
7.8122mDuring a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective seeks advice from a seasoned colleague while trying to track down his stolen Colt…
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Drunken Angel(1948)
7.6102mAfter a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan.
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One Wonderful Sunday(1947)
7.2108mYuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen.
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Scandal(1950)
7.2105mFamous singer Miyako Saijo, who is publicity shy, and motorbiking artist Ichirô Aoye, who has minor celebrity, meet by chance in Kappazawa…
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Michael Legge: The Idiot
7.1166mA Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with…
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No Regrets for Our Youth(1946)
7.1110mIn 1933, in Kyoto, academic freedom is under attack and the spoiled daughter of Professor Yagihara, Yukie Yagihara, is courted by the…
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The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail(1952)
6.759mIn 1185, the Heike family fights against the Minamoto family.
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Sanshiro Sugata(1943)
6.779mSanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school.
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Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two(1945)
6.083mIn this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority…
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