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Synopsis: Japanese warlord Hidetori Ichimonji decides the time has come to retire and divide his fiefdom among his three sons. His eldest and middle sons - Taro and Jiro - agree with his decision and promise to support him for his remaining days. The youngest son Saburo disagrees with all of them arguing that there is little likelihood the three brothers will remain united. Insulted by his son's brashness, the warlord banishes Saburo. As the warlord begins his retirement, he quickly realizes that his two eldest sons selfish and have no intention of keeping their promises. It leads to war and only banished Saburo can possibly save him.
Genre: Action, Drama
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
Production: Rialto Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 28 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
96
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
R
Year:
1985
162 min
1,227 Views


Laugh, Tango.

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Wretched Hidetora

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rejected by his children,

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driven from his castIes,

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with no pIace to go.

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You have a pIace to go, my Lord.

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56:20,210 -- 00:56:21,960

Master Saburo

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has found refuge with Lord Fujimaki.

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Go to him.

577

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56:29,219 -- 00:56:31,345

No, I can't.

578

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How could l ever face him?

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Listen to me!

580

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AIl Saburo wants

is your weIfare.

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lf I'm disguised Iike this,

582

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if l foIlowed you so far,

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it's aIl thanks to him.

584

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He sent me to protect you.

585

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l have news.

586

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Saburo's men gave up the castIe.

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They went to join Lord Fujimaki.

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Now Fujimaki's pIot is cIear.

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First, he takes Saburo,

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then Saburo's warriors,

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then the lordship himself.

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The lchimonjis battIe each other.

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And he walks off with your Iand.

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That's a Iie!

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He's not that kind of man!

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We must go to the Third Castle!

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But Taro's general has taken it!

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Ogura? He won't touch us.

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What do l smelI?

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A very fishy stink!

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Ogura has only a few men.

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We can beat them easily.

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My horse!

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That's it, hurry!

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"HelI is ever at hand,

which you cannot say of Heaven."

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Stay behind if you're afraid!

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And yet,

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aIl we did was telI the truth.

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The enemy...

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l know!

CaIl Ikoma and Ogura!

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It's a trap; they tricked us!

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We're surrounded, overwheImed!

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We truly are in HeIl!

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Lord Taro is sIain.

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What?

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So be it!

617

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A stray shot from the tower.

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The fortunes of war.

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08:08,000 -- 01:08:10,543

The fates are kinder to you.

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And Father?

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He'lI commit seppuku.

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We are Iost!

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Prepare yourself.

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FareweIl, my Lord!

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Go back!

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Lord Jiro!

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The die is cast; do not falter.

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You chose this path, folIow it.

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lt leads to absoIute ruIership.

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You can no longer turn back.

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Is he mad?

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And better off for it.

633

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What do you mean?

634

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Please, my Lord,

come to your wits!

635

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ln a mad worId,

onIy the mad are sane.

636

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What do you see?

637

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Forgive me!

638

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Oh excelIent!

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The faiIed mind

sees the heart's failings.

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The wonder of it!

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I see on this withered pIain

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AlI those I destroyed

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A phantom army

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One by one, they come floating

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Rising before me

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Who's there?

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TraveIlers stranded by the storm.

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Let us stay the night.

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My house is too poor for visitors.

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We ask nothing speciaI.

651

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I'm sorry, l must be alone.

652

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Why? Are you diseased?

653

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No.

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Then Iet us in.

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l cannot.

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The one who seeks sheIter

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is the Great Lord himself.

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We're coming in.

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Our Lord was taken ilI.

He is wet through.

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Bring something to cover him.

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I'm cold...

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Tango...

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He is himself again.

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More's the pity.

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He is better off mad.

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Listen to me.

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l, Hidetora,

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was attacked by my own sons.

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I was betrayed by my vassaI.

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That's not the worst.

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Because of me,

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my loyal men

died a useless death.

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As fate wouId have it,

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onIy I survived,

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I, who should have died.

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You there! Woman!

677

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I am not a woman.

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It's so dark, bring the Iight.

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l have no Iight.

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I have no need of one.

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Are your eyes so poor?

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Are you Lady Su's brother,

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young Lord Tsurumaru?

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Tsurumaru?

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lt's been a long time,

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Lord Hidetora.

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Akira Kurosawa

After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom. Drunken Angel (1948)--"Drunken Angel"--was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford. After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashomon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991) and Maadadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Rashomon (1950) as The Outrage (1964), Seven Samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Hidden Fortress (1958), as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). more…

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