Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Sanjuro” (1962).

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt….

The police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective finds that he’s not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound…