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Akira Kurosawa Filmography
Weather as emotion, movement as character, and the wipe cut as a signature. The films Hollywood has been remaking for seventy years without quite matching.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa · 1954
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa · 1950
Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa · 1952
Ran
Akira Kurosawa · 1985
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