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Review: Flaming Cloud (2023)
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Scandal (醜聞, Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
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Akebi’s Sailor Uniform – 03 – Free as a Cloud
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The Idiot (白痴, Akira Kurosawa, 1951)
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Ikiru (生きる, Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
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Rashomon (羅生門, Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
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At BFI Southbank January and February 2023.
Yojimbo (用心棒, Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
A cynical ronin plays warring factions off against each other to save a moribund silk town in Akira Kurosawa’s samurai western.
Akira Kurosawa Retrospective at the BFI 2023
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Two aimless best friends team up with a young woman looking for her missing father to find long lost wartime gold in Kiyoshi Nishimura’s breezy adventure.
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Wicked Priest (極悪坊主, Kiyoshi Saeki, 1968)
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A cursed young man searches for his long lost true love in Liu Siyi’s beautifully designed fairytale romance.
“Houki Gumo” (trans. “Comet Cloud”) — Yakitate!! Japan OP 1
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Stray Dog (野良犬, Akira Kurosawa, 1949)
A rookie policeman chases an echo of himself through the backstreets of post-war Japan while looking for his missing gun in Akira Kurosawa’s sweltering noir.
Sanjuro (椿三十郎, Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
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Watanabe, Kurosawa, & Kumagai: 2004's Inadvertent Samurai Trilogy
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The Young Boss (花笠若衆, Kiyoshi Saeki, 1958)
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Cantankerous Edo (大江戸喧嘩纏, Kiyoshi Saeki, 1957)
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The Lower Depths (どん底, Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
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Three Women of the North (北の三人, Kiyoshi Saeki, 1945)
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Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城, Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
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The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud Gekiga Manga Release Details
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