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    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1954 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima

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  • I Live in Fear

    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 FEA...

  • Throne of Blood

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1957 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki

    A 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....