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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.

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

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

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

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

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.