Hailed as the greatest film in the history of Japanese cinema, Seven Samurai is director Akira Kurosawa's undisputed masterpiece. Arguably the greatest of all jidai-gecki (or historical swordplay films), Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and dynamic character development. The story is set during the civil unrest of 16th-century Japan, as the cowering residents of a small farming village are seeking protection against seasonal attacks by a band of marauding bandits. Offering mere handfuls of rice as payment, they hire seven unemployed "ronin" (masterless samurai), including a boastful swordsman (Toshiro Mifune) who is actually a peasant farmer's son, desperately seeking glory, acceptance, and... Learn More
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Hailed as the greatest film in the history of Japanese cinema, Seven Samurai is director Akira Kurosawa's undisputed masterpiece. Arguably the greatest of all jidai-gecki (or historical swordplay films), Kurosawa's classic 1954 action drama has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and dynamic character development. The story is set during the civil unrest of 16th-century Japan, as the cowering residents of a small farming village are seeking protection against seasonal attacks by a band of marauding bandits. Offering mere handfuls of rice as payment, they hire seven unemployed "ronin" (masterless samurai), including a boastful swordsman (Toshiro Mifune) who is actually a peasant farmer's son, desperately seeking glory, acceptance, and... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Akira Kurosawa DVD Release Date: Released the 05 September 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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368 minutes of Italian TV miniseries--yes, that is indeed six hours' worth--comes unspooling in The Best of Youth, a stirring and beautiful experience. The film needs its running time to immerse us in the world of the Carati family from 1966 to near the present day. Two brothers are the primary focus: Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio), a responsible medical student, and Matteo (Alessio Boni), a troubled soldier. After a youthful road trip, their paths diverge, but each is carried along by the changing, sometimes violent, political weather of Italy in the 1970s and '80s. Life issues surge and ebb, with the increasing sense that Matteo is a lost soul, beyond even the help of the luminous woman (unforgettable Maya Sansa) who comes into his life.
I first saw this by accident, as one often does, late one night on telivision( yes..proof that something worthwhile has been shown on tv) and it really blew us away..a Beautiful little film about a little girl orphaned by the war and adopted by a farming family.She delelopes a very close frienship with the young boy of this family...and..well lets not spoil the rest...it is a really profound and moving film that has stayed with me ever since i saw it..yes, we loved and have been dying to see it ever since..iam so glad criterion are doing it..suber More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Georges Poujouly DVD Release Date: 06 December 2005
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This is a beautiful and well-crafted film, mostly warm and enjoyable but with an overlying tinge of sadness. It focuses on two tragedies of post-war China -- the Cultural Revolution (in particular the policy of sending educated children from the city for "re-education" in the country) and the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river, equally rapacious in its destruction of China's past, rich historical and archaeological sites, as well as environmental and social upheaval. Inevitably present as background, the focus is not politics, but rather the story of two young men in difficult times and how they cope, even thrive; and of the beautiful young woman they meet.
It is 1971, and Ma and Luo are eighteen, modern children of the city elite, sent to a remote and mountainous... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Xun Zhou DVD Release Date: 29 November 2005
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Black Girl is as the previous reviewer described it. Barom Sarret is a different movie from a year before. It is shorter than La Noire De.... It is cruder, but more succinct, and, I believe, superior to Black Girl. Both movies are excellent, and worthy of purchase, that they appear together on one disc is particularly generous. More Info About This DVD Director(s): Ousmane Sembene DVD Release Date: 22 November 2005
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As critic Roger Ebert observed in his original review of Ran, this epic tragedy might have been attempted by a younger director, but only the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, who made the film at age 75, could bring the requisite experience and maturity to this stunning interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. It's a film for the ages--one of the few genuine screen masterpieces--and arguably serves as an artistic summation of the great director's career. In this version of the Shakespeare tragedy, the king is a 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Hidetora) who decides to retire and divide his kingdom evenly among his three sons. When one son defiantly objects out of loyalty to his father and warns of inevitable sibling rivalry, he is banished and the kingdom is... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Tatsuya Nakadai - Akira Terao - Jinpachi Nezu - Daisuke Ryu Director(s): Akira Kurosawa DVD Release Date: 22 November 2005
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