![Sanshiro Sugata (AKA Judo Saga) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q5Z9VX26L._SL75_.jpg) | Sanshiro Sugata (AKA Judo Saga) [VHS]
Buy used from: $7.40 I watched this as part of a course on Modern Japan in college.
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 | Eclipse Series 7 - Post-War Kurosawa Box - Eclipse from Criterion (No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday, Scandal, The Idiot, I Live in Fear) (1980) (Criterion Collection)
Buy new: $62.99 / Used from: $41.98 Another awesome bargain (slightly less than $10 per film) from the Criterion Collection.
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 | Drunken Angel - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $14.00 Mifune's first collaboration with Kurosawa, and a great one.
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 | Akira Kurosawa's The Quiet Duel
Buy used from: $6.79 A surgeon (Mifune) carelessly contracts syphilis from an infected patient during an operation, which devastates his relastionship with his fiancee.
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 | Stray Dog - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $17.99 Mifune plays a cop, not a gangster, this time around.
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 | Rashomon - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.49 An existential whodunit.
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 | Ikiru - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $21.00 Takashi Shimura as Watanabe is wonderful.
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 | Seven Samurai - 3 Disc Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine # 2)
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $25.00 A knockout--Mifune is dynamite.
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 | The Lower Depths (Kurosawa 1957) / The Lower Depths (Renoir 1936) - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $13.95 Kurosawa's version of the play by Maxim Gorky.
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 | The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $10.09 The 2 annoying peasants inspired Lucas to create C-3PO & R2D2.
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 | Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.50 Macbeth retold & reshaped the Kurosawa way.
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 | Yojimbo (Criterion Collection Spine #52)
Buy used from: $7.70 Give me Mifune over Clint Eastwood any day!
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 | The Bad Sleep Well - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $11.00 Hamlet retold & reshaped the Kurosawa way.
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 | Sanjuro - Remastered Edition (Criterion Collection Spine #53)
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $13.94 Mifune's scruffy samurai returns.
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 | High and Low - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $23.00 A compelling detective story featuring Mifune in a "straight" role.
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 | Red Beard - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $19.00 Mifune's last collaboration with Kurosawa & a fine farewell
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 | Dodes'ka-Den
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $12.99 A story about, as it says in the trailer, "bizarre people in a bizarre town."
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 | Dersu Uzala
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $20.00 Kudos to the Russians for giving Kurosawa what he needed to make this great & underrrated masterpiece.
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 | Kagemusha - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.49 / Used from: $17.00 Kurosawa "out-Shakespeares Shakespeare" with a little help from his friends F. Coppola & G. Lucas.
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 | Something Like An Autobiography by Akira Kurosawa
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.10 Excellent & very informative
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 | Ran - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $36.89 Lear retold & reshaped the Kurosawa way.
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 | Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.79 Watch for Ozu regular Chishu Ryu in the last scene. His 3rd of 3 (The Bad Sleep Well was 1; Red Beard was 2) appearances in an A.K. film.
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 | Rhapsody in August
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.59 Ozu-esque story of Nagasaki survivor & her relationship with her family.
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 | Madadayo
Buy used from: $13.71 Kurosawa's beautifully tranquil farewell to film-making.
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