Akira Kurosawa Bucket List

Rashomon. four witnesses, four irreconcilable accounts of the same killing.

Kurosawa's epic of villagers and hired swords (1954).

A thief is made to impersonate a dead warlord to hold a clan together.

A shoe executive must choose between his fortune and a kidnapped boy.

A rookie detective loses his pistol in postwar Tokyo and hunts it through the heat.

A masterless samurai plays two gangs against each other for money.

King Lear as a sixteenth-century warlord epic, in Kurosawa's fiercest colour.

A young doctor learns humility in a nineteenth-century clinic for the poor.

A bureaucrat with cancer decides to build one playground before he dies.

The two bickering peasants George Lucas turned into R2-D2 and C-3PO.

The first Kurosawa-Mifune film: a slum doctor and a tubercular gangster.

Macbeth relocated to feudal Japan, ending in a storm of arrows.

A Russian surveyor and a Nanai hunter survive the Siberian taiga together.