Kurosawa Classic Collection DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Produced in 1949-70
Main Language - Japanese with English subtitles
Countries & Regions - Asian Film, Japanese Film
Film Description
Akira Kurosawa, one of the cinema’s greatest auteurs, has wowed audiences worldwide and inspired filmmakers as diverse as George Lucas and Sergio Leone. This essential 5-disc box set brings together five of his most profound masterpieces exploring the complexities of life, including 2 DVD debuts.
Included is the beautifully nuanced Ikiru (1952) in which Kurosawa regular Takashi Shimura plays a dying man who discovers a new zest for life in the last six months of his life as he tries to turn a waste dump into a children’s playground; the nuclear threat drama I Live in Fear (1949); the humane Red Beard (1965), in which Toshiro Mifune plays an authoritarian doctor who has to teach an idle new intern responsibility to oneself and others; and, making their DVD debuts, the acclaimed Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths (1957) and Kurosawa’s acclaimed first colour film Dodes’ Ka-den (1970).
DVD Details
Certificate: 15
Publisher: BFI
Length: 673 mins
Region: 2
Cat No: BFIVD939
Format: DVD Colour
DVD Extras
- 5 discs
- Selected filmed introductions by Alex Cox
- Extensive illustrated booklet featuring essays and film notes.
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