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Kurosawa, In Order #19 – The Bad Sleep Well
THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) Kurosawa had reached a point where he had been given the opportunity to form his own production company. This development
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Kurosawa, In Order #18 – The Hidden Fortress
THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958) Kurosawa had signed a three picture deal with Toho Studios and Throne of Blood and The Lower Depths were box office
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Kurosawa, In Order #17 – The Lower Depths
THE LOWER DEPTHS (1957) Maxim Gorky wrote The Lower Depths in 1902, focusing on a group of Russia’s impoverished making do in a flophouse. With
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Kurosawa, In Order #16 – Throne of Blood
THRONE OF BLOOD (1957) Akira Kurosawa conceived of updating Shakespeare’s Macbeth to Japan around the same time that he was making Rashomon. Kurosawa had been
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Kurosawa, In Order #15 – I Live in Fear
I LIVE IN FEAR (1955) In March 1954, the Japanese fishing boat Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon No. 5) was irradiated by fallout from American
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Kurosawa, In Order #14 – Seven Samurai
SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) After the international successes of Rashomon and Ikiru, Kurosawa had an enormous amount of clout and turned to a historical epic for