 | Stray Dog - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $17.00 Released in 1949,
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 | Rashomon - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $15.90 Released in 1950, an amazing piece of storytelling. "The Usual Suspects" was surely influenced by "Rashomon." Often credited as the reason the Academy created the "Best Foreign Film" category.
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 | Seven Samurai - 3 Disc Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine # 2)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $21.98 Released in 1954, it's probably Kurosawa's most well known picture. Remade again by Hollywood with "The Magnificent Seven." Arguably the first action movie in film history, it's a masterpiece as well.
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 | Ikiru - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $18.48 Released in 1956,
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 | The Lower Depths (Kurosawa 1957) / The Lower Depths (Renoir 1936) - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $13.95 Released in 1957,
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 | Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $16.02 Released in 1957, it's Kurosawa's retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Mifune should've won an Oscar for his performance.
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 | The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $7.00 Released in 1958, George Lucas was heavily "influenced" by Kurosawa, and ended up using many aspects of this film and "Seven Samurai" for his Star Wars films.
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 | Yojimbo (Criterion Collection Spine #52)
Buy used from: $8.00 Released in 1961, Hollywood has remade it seven times. You may have heard of Clint Eastwood's "A Fistful Of Dollars", then Bruce Willis' "Last Man Standing." It's no wonder.
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 | Sanjuro - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $5.86 Released in 1962, the sequel to Yojimbo. I enjoyed Sanjuro even more. Mifune is hilarious. Certainly inspired writers to write parts for future action heroes with humorous one-liners.
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 | High and Low - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $22.29 Released in 1963, I promise that it will be one of the best crime thrillers you will ever see. There is a scene in the movie that inspired a scene in Spielberg's "Schindler's List."
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 | Dersu Uzala
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $12.95 Released in 1976, it won best foreign film Oscar. There were a lot of scenes in this that I know I'll never forget.
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 | Red Beard - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $16.47 Released in 1965, an epic 3 hour drama. Anyone who has ever enjoyed an episode of "e.r." owes this film. Sadly, this film classic marked the end of Akira Kurosawa's collaboration with Toshiro Mifune.
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 | Kagemusha - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $11.44 Released in 1980,
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 | Ran (Masterworks Edition)
Buy used from: $4.44 Released in 1985, it's Kurosawa's retelling of Shakespeare's "King Lear," Roger Ebert exclaimed **** "A great, glorius achievement! Kurosawa is one of the greatest directors of all time."
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 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.80 Released in 1990,
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 | Rhapsody in August
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.94 Released in 1991,
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 | Madadayo
Buy used from: $9.49 Released in 1993,
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 | Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics (Seven Samurai / The Hidden Fortress / Yojimbo / Sanjuro) - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $74.94 The best way to start off your DVD collection of Kurosawa films. This incredible Criterion 4-DVD box set includes 4 must have titles: "Yojimbo," "Sanjuro," "The Hidden Fortress," and "Seven Samurai."
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 | The Warrior's Camera by Stephen Prince
Buy new: $25.03 / Used from: $9.82 Stephen Prince also did the commentary track for the "Masterworks" edition of "Ran" and Criterion's DVD release of "Red Beard." Also had an essay in the DVD extras for "Throne Of Blood."
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 | The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune by Stuart Galbraith
Buy used from: $23.00 |
 | The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated by Donald Richie
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $7.84 Donald Richie also did the commentary track for Criterion's DVD release of "Rashomon." Also appeared in the DVD extras for "Red Beard" and "Throne Of Blood."
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 | Something Like An Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.00 An excerpt of this book appears in the extras for Criterion's DVD release of "Rashomon."
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