Kurosawa's version of 'Macbeth' spares no effort in creating an atmosphere of obsessive madness and supernatural compulsion. The black and white contr... Read more
Akira Kurosawa's first huge international success is this superlative study of truth and human nature; four people involved in a rape-murder tell vary... Read more
When teacher Junpei Niki misses his last bus home after a day out collecting insects on a remote stretch of coast, he is invited by a local villager t... Read more
One of the funniest, most enjoyable, satirical comedies is this treasure of a movie, the plot of which, loosely concerns the quest for the perfect Jap... Read more
Kurosawa's first full-length comedy. Toshiro Mifune is the unemployed samurai warrior who comes to a small village torn apart by two warring factions... Read more
Kurosawa's remarkable, personal tale of the friendship between a wise old man and a young Soviet explorer, filmed in the beautiful expanse of Siberia,... Read more
What is the only thing these three deaths have in common: a groom that hangs himself at his own wedding reception, a seventy-year old man who throws h... Read more
Noam Chomsky's voice may be controversial, but his incisive arguments, based on decades of research and analysis, deserve to be heard and considered.... Read more
Volume 2 of 3. Episode 3: With a robot and alien at home, Naota tries to at least have a normal school life. The class is putting on "Puss 'n Boots" a... Read more
Volume 3 of 3. Episode 5: Mabase's safe for now, but there's a new kind of danger. Naota finds himself in the midst of a survival game, with Karuko on... Read more