Akira Kurosawa's Dreams 1990  PG, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishu Ryu, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho, Chosuke Ikariya, Toshie Negishi, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshihiko Nakano, Yoshitaka Zushi, Hisashi Igawa, Masayuki Yui
Famed writer-director Akira Kurosawa put together a number of his dreams and presents a sequence of incidents exploring the relationship of human beings to their environments.
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Clickety-Clack 1970  N/R, 140 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Dodesukaden
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Junzaburo Ban, Kiyoko Tange, Michiko Hino, Imari Tsuji, Keiji Furuyama, Hisashi Igawa, Hideko Okiyama, Kunie Tanaka, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, Yuko Kusunoki, Tappei Shimokawa, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Kurosawa tells of life in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo through the lives of several of its inhabitants, covering the range of emotion from tragedy to humor. The title refers to the sounds that a mentally challenged, young man makes as he goes around the slums in his pretend trolley. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Madadayo 1993 N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Not Yet
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyoko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, Joji Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao, Asei Kobayashi, Takeshi Kusaka
This movie, directed by the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, is the tale of Professor Hyakken Uehida (Tatsuo Matsumura) who retired after World War II but was so revered by his students that they supported him throughout his long life.
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 Ran 1985  R, 165 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Hisashi Igawa, Peter, Masayuki Yui, Kazuo Kato, Norio Matsui, Toshiya Ito, Mansai Nomura, Kanji Kodama, Takashi Watanabe
Based on Shakespeare's "King Lear," this epic film, set in feudal Japan, is about tragedy in family relationships that have gone berserk. The Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to divide his kingdom among his sons (Akira Terao, Jimpachi Nezu, and Daisuke Ryu). Greed and lust for power rise to the fore, and the older sons manage to get their youngest brother banished from the kingdom. After accomplishing that goal, the two remaining brothers battle each other for control of the kingdom. Akira Kurosawa received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
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Rhapsody in August 1991 PG, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Tomoko Otakara, Hisashi Igawa, Mitsunori Isaki, Narumi Kayashima, Toshie Negishi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Choichiro Kawarazaki, Mieko Suzuki
Japanese-American Clark (Richard Gere) travels to visit and apologize to his Aunt Kane (Sachiko Murase) for the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. Kane was a survivor of the catastrophe, and the film explores the bombing through her grandchildren's reaction to the conversation between nephew Clark and Aunt Kane.
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| 1. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
2. Clickety-Clack (1970)
aka: Dodesukaden
3. Madadayo (1993)
aka: Not Yet
4. Ran (1985)
5. Rhapsody in August (1991)
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