Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1955 • Japan
Starring Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki
Both the final film of this period in which Akira Kurosawa would directly wrestle with the demons of the Second World War and his most literal representation of living in an atomic age, the galvanizing I LIVE IN FEAR presents Toshiro Mifune as an elderly, stubborn businessman so fearful of a nuclear attack that he resolves to move his reluctant family to South America. With this mournful film, the director depicts a society emerging from the shadows but still terrorized by memories of the past and anxieties for the future.
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki • 1955 • Japan
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki • 1956 • Japan
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Throne of Blood
Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1957 • Japan
Starring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru ChiakiA vivid, visceral “Macbeth” adaptation, THRONE OF BLOOD, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan....
