Akira Kurosawa
The Quiet Duel: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor, contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery. After the war, he returns to his fiance and rejects her without explanation. His nurse Rui learns the truth, however. When Fujisak... Buy or find out more →
The Idiot: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Based on Dostoyevky's The Idiot , Akira Kurosawa faithfully translates his favourite author's tale of love and murder to the snowy northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Kameda - a mentally fragile innocent incapable of d... Buy or find out more →
Ikiru: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
When petty official Kenji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) learns he is going to die he begins a quest for the true meaning of existence. Realising that his life until now has been wasted and no longer finding solace in his fa... Buy or find out more →
The Bad Sleep Well: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Often overlooked, Kurosawa's first independent co-production, The Bad Sleep Well, is a scathing indictment on the morality of Japan's post-occupation economic miracle. Toshiro Mifune stars as Nishi, a salaryman who marri... Buy or find out more →
Maadadayo: Director's Suite
$34.99 – Digital video disc / Directors Suite
Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's last film is a homage to the man who inspired him. Warm, sentimental and rousing, Maadadayo means not 'not yet' in English, and tells the story of a retired teacher with a ren... Buy or find out more →
Throne of Blood
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Akira Kurosawa reworks Shakespeare's Macbeth in Throne of Blood. Set in medieval Japan, Lord Wasizu and Lord Miki are lost in a dense forest where they meet a mysterious old woman who forsees their future. After leaving ... Buy or find out more →
I Live in Fear: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Obsessed with the constant threat of nuclear holocaust, wealthy foundry owner Nakajima (Toshiro Mifune) decides to move his entire family to Brazil but meets with strong resistance when his children realise their inherit... Buy or find out more →
Seven Samurai
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Eastern Eye
Considered one of cinema's greatest-ever masterpieces, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) is an epic tale of heroism, camaraderie and sacrifice.
In 16th-century Japan, the residents of a small farming ... Buy or find out more →
Drunken Angel: Director's Suite
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
In the filthy, crater-pocked slums of post-war Tokyo, the yakuza reign. When local heavy Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune) needs medical attention after a fight, the alcoholic Dr Sanada (Takashi Shimura) recognises some of his ... Buy or find out more →
Ran: Collector's Edition
$29.95$19.95 – Digital video disc / Universal Pict Vid
This is a Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the younge... Buy or find out more →
Yojimbo
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Eastern Eye
A masterless samurai whose wits are as deadly as his blade. Buy or find out more →
Rashomon
$34.99 – Digital video disc / Madman
In ancient Japan, a woman is raped and her husband killed. Rashomon is played out by giving us four stories - with every story revealing different points of view. The question remains - just which version is the truth? R... Buy or find out more →
Kurosawa Samurai Classics: Box Set
$99.95 – Digital video disc / Eastern Eye
Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) is one of the most well respected and influential directors of all time. In Hollywood's hands SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) was remade as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, YOJIMBO (1961... Buy or find out more →
Kurosawa Samurai Classics 2: Box Set
$79.99 – Digital video disc / Eastern Eye
The works of master director Akira Kurosawa have entertained audiences for over 50 years. RASHOMON(1950)was Kurosawa's breakthrough film to the West,later inspiring THE USUAL SUSPECTS(1995). Shakespeare's Macbeth is bril... Buy or find out more →
Akira Kurosawa Interviews
$39.95 – Paperback book / Univ New Mexico
Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) moved with ease and mastery from the mysterious and internal to the spectacular and panoramic. Kurosawa was a man of all genres and all periods, bridging the traditional and the modern, the old... Buy or find out more →