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Kurosawa, In Order #25 – Dersu Uzala
DERSU UZALA (1975) After the commercial failure of Dodes’ka-den, his attempted suicide, and the difficulty of finding funding in a Japanese film industry that was
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Kurosawa, In Order #24 – Dodes’ka-den
DODES’KA-DEN (1970) Akira Kurosawa hadn’t had a flop in over a decade when he made Dodes’ka-den, yet he was in need of a comeback. His
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Kurosawa, In Order #23 – Red Beard
RED BEARD (1965) Although they likely didn’t know it at the time, Red Beard marks the end of an era. It’s the end of Kurosawa’s
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Kurosawa, In Order #22 – High and Low
HIGH AND LOW (1963) Salvatore Albert Lombino, aka Evan Hunter, inspired by Jack Webb, wrote around fifty 87th Precinct police procedural novels under the pen
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Kurosawa, In Order #21 – Sanjuro
SANJURO (1962) Kurosawa had wanted to make a film based on Shuguro Yamamoto’s story “Peaceful Days” before he made Yojimbo. With the massive success of
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Kurosawa, In Order #20 – Yojimbo
YOJIMBO (1961) Kurosawa had wanted to do a film like Yojimbo for a long time. A story not of good vs. evil, but of evil