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4 results found for '"Akira Kurosawa"' in Person.
Ran (1985 Film, Video)
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Serge Silberman
Feature film. A Japanese version of King Lear, directed by Akira Kurosawa, transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan. An old man, now a warlord, cedes his kingdom to his eldest son and starts a power struggle...
A.K. (1985 Film)
- Director
- Chris Marker
- Producer
- Serge Silberman
Documentary, directed by Chris Marker, which records his days on location with Akira Kurosawa during the filming of RAN. Narrated by Robert Kramer, the film is divided into segments such as battles’,...
Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru (1960 Film)
aka: The Bad Sleep Well
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Akira Kurosawa; Tomoyuki Tanaka
Kurosawa directed three adaptations from Shakespeare. Two were recreated as samurai movies: Macbeth became THRONE OF BLOOD (1957), and King Lear inspired his last major film, the epic RAN (1985). THE BAD...
Kumonosu-Jo (1957 Film, Video)
aka: Throne of Blood
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Akira Kurosawa
The story of MACBETH transposed to medieval Japan, with Macbeth as a samurai and drawing on traditions from Noh drama. Toshiro Mifune is Macbeth. In Kurosawa’s masterly interpretation of MACBETH ‘the...