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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
1,156 Views


804

01:
36:16,312 -- 01:36:17,937

Sister-in-law?

805

01:
36:18,105 -- 01:36:21,024

After what we've just done?

806

01:
36:22,735 -- 01:36:24,611

By rights,

807

01:
36:25,696 -- 01:36:28,072

I realIy shouId be

808

01:
36:29,033 -- 01:36:30,784

your wife.

809

01:
36:39,835 -- 01:36:42,545

I have my wife, Su.

810

01:
36:43,839 -- 01:36:46,216

I'lI be merely your concubine?

811

01:
36:48,677 -- 01:36:50,553

No... no...

812

01:
36:53,224 -- 01:36:55,225

You're mine.

813

01:
36:55,684 -- 01:36:58,144

No one else shaIl have you.

814

01:
37:34,890 -- 01:37:36,850

Don't cry, Kaede.

815

01:
37:37,268 -- 01:37:40,186

You won't just be a concubine.

816

01:
37:41,856 -- 01:37:44,440

As Iong as Lady Su is there...

817

01:
37:45,609 -- 01:37:47,485

I'lI attend to her.

818

01:
37:48,279 -- 01:37:49,863

But how?

819

01:
37:51,949 -- 01:37:53,616

I'lI repudiate her.

820

01:
37:54,535 -- 01:37:56,494

That's not what l want!

821

01:
37:57,246 -- 01:37:58,913

After our ecstasy,

822

01:
37:59,081 -- 01:38:01,291

l can't bear it

that another woman

823

01:
38:01,500 -- 01:38:03,751

has known your touch.

824

01:
38:05,629 -- 01:38:07,922

Such a woman cannot remain alive.

825

01:
38:17,641 -- 01:38:20,852

WelI now, look where we are.

826

01:
38:23,147 -- 01:38:25,106

lf fortune had run true,

827

01:
38:25,274 -- 01:38:27,483

Tsurumaru would Iive here.

828

01:
38:28,736 -- 01:38:31,404

You shelter in the very ruins

829

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38:31,530 -- 01:38:33,656

of the castle you burned.

830

01:
38:39,413 -- 01:38:42,206

Ignorance is bIiss, indeed.

831

01:
39:25,042 -- 01:39:26,376

Your heImet, my Lord.

832

01:
39:52,528 -- 01:39:54,487

Your pIumes.

833

01:
39:55,906 -- 01:39:58,241

Don't you Iook regal!

834

01:
40:30,649 -- 01:40:32,525

Help, here come demons!

835

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40:33,193 -- 01:40:34,569

Two of them!

836

01:
40:48,167 -- 01:40:50,710

Traitors! You must pay!

837

01:
40:52,212 -- 01:40:53,838

No, wait!

838

01:
40:54,131 -- 01:40:55,214

Let us explain!

839

01:
40:55,382 -- 01:40:56,966

Save your breath.

840

01:
40:57,134 -- 01:41:00,428

I know aIl about your treachery.

841

01:
41:45,849 -- 01:41:47,934

Die, traitor!

842

01:
41:49,770 -- 01:41:51,312

Jiro kilIed Taro!

843

01:
41:52,272 -- 01:41:54,190

Madness saved Hidetora.

844

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41:55,234 -- 01:41:57,527

lf he recovers his wits,

845

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41:57,653 -- 01:41:58,986

he'lI be kiIled, too.

846

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42:18,590 -- 01:42:20,967

Jiro slew Taro, our lord is next.

847

01:
42:21,135 -- 01:42:23,761

We must take him to master Saburo.

848

01:
42:24,179 -- 01:42:26,139

lf only we could.

849

01:
42:27,141 -- 01:42:30,017

Mention Saburo and he runs away.

850

01:
42:31,186 -- 01:42:34,730

He doesn't dare face him.

851

01:
42:34,940 -- 01:42:36,899

On that point, he's sane.

852

01:
42:40,904 -- 01:42:43,114

What about Master Saburo?

853

01:
42:46,994 -- 01:42:49,245

WouId you like to see him?

854

01:
42:57,004 -- 01:43:00,381

The onIy way

is to bring Saburo here.

855

01:
43:00,591 -- 01:43:02,717

Maybe he can talk sense to him.

856

01:
43:03,177 -- 01:43:06,095

l'Il be back as soon as I can.

857

01:
43:07,598 -- 01:43:09,682

Take good care of him.

858

01:
43:43,383 -- 01:43:46,844

Lady Kaede Ieads you by the nose.

859

01:
43:50,432 -- 01:43:53,309

If you wish to marry, fine.

860

01:
43:53,852 -- 01:43:57,396

But kilI Lady Su for that?

861

01:
43:58,982 -- 01:44:01,651

Sometimes, kiIling is necessary.

862

01:
44:02,319 -- 01:44:05,154

But to kiIl on a whim!

863

01:
44:06,573 -- 01:44:08,741

The order is unreasonable,

864

01:
44:08,909 -- 01:44:10,326

I must refuse.

865

01:
44:35,394 -- 01:44:37,144

Lord Kurogane...

866

01:
44:38,021 -- 01:44:39,438

At the Second Castle,

867

01:
44:39,606 -- 01:44:41,774

there is a suppIy of salt?

868

01:
44:44,236 -- 01:44:46,112

Of course. Why?

869

01:
44:47,781 -- 01:44:50,157

When you bring back her head,

870

01:
44:50,367 -- 01:44:52,034

salt it first.

871

01:
44:52,369 -- 01:44:57,039

Otherwise, in this heat,

we'Il be unabIe to Iook at it.

872

01:
44:58,959 -- 01:45:01,585

Lady Su is so beautiful,

873

01:
45:01,753 -- 01:45:04,547

it wouId be ungracious to her.

874

01:
45:04,923 -- 01:45:06,799

Since you wiIl go personalIy,

875

01:
45:06,967 -- 01:45:09,427

there wilI be no mistake.

876

01:
45:10,846 -- 01:45:12,805

Do it as you see it.

877

01:
45:38,832 -- 01:45:41,959

Why stay with this mad old man?

878

01:
45:43,628 -- 01:45:46,505

If the rock you sit on

starts to rolI,

879

01:
45:46,923 -- 01:45:48,966

jump cIear.

880

01:
45:55,599 -- 01:46:00,019

Or you'Il go with it

and be squashed.

881

01:
46:13,533 -- 01:46:15,951

Only a fool stays aboard.

882

01:
46:20,457 -- 01:46:22,124

What is this place?

883

01:
46:38,141 -- 01:46:39,809

Paradise!

884

01:
47:01,331 -- 01:47:03,207

Think of it.

885

01:
47:04,835 -- 01:47:06,836

AIl my life,

886

01:
47:08,672 -- 01:47:10,923

I've been his nurse.

887

01:
47:30,110 -- 01:47:31,652

Good boy...

888

01:
47:36,450 -- 01:47:38,033

Sweet dreams.

889

01:
48:25,290 -- 01:48:28,250

I, Kurogane, am back.

890

01:
48:50,941 -- 01:48:52,274

Approach!

891

01:
49:23,473 -- 01:49:25,933

Thank you for being quick.

892

01:
49:26,643 -- 01:49:28,727

At your service, my lady.

893

01:
49:31,106 -- 01:49:34,567

I have brought the object

894

01:
49:34,734 -- 01:49:37,319

as per your instructions.

895

01:
49:41,908 -- 01:49:44,827

Be so kind as to examine it.

896

01:
49:56,798 -- 01:49:59,383

l'Il be the first to look.

897

01:
50:27,412 -- 01:50:28,829

What is this?

898

01:
50:29,873 -- 01:50:32,541

Your joking goes too far!

899

01:
50:32,709 -- 01:50:34,168

ls anything wrong?

900

01:
50:37,922 -- 01:50:39,715

lmagine that!

901

01:
50:41,343 -- 01:50:43,886

Lady Su was a fox in disguise.

902

01:
50:44,054 -- 01:50:46,055

Enough of your tricks!

903

01:
50:46,348 -- 01:50:48,432

This is a statue of a shrine.

904

01:
50:53,188 -- 01:50:56,315

CIever fox:
first become a human,

905

01:
50:57,192 -- 01:50:59,526

then turns himself to stone.

906

01:
51:03,740 -- 01:51:06,200

Are you making a fooI of me?

907

01:
51:06,785 -- 01:51:08,327

Certainly not.

908

01:
51:08,495 -- 01:51:11,080

There are many foxes hereabouts.

909

01:
51:11,247 -- 01:51:14,583

lt is said they take human form.

910

01:
51:18,171 -- 01:51:20,422

Take care, my Lord.

911

01:
51:20,840 -- 01:51:24,385

They often impersonate women.

912

01:
51:24,844 -- 01:51:29,181

In Central Asia,

a fox seduced King Pan Tsu,

913

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51:29,349 -- 01:51:31,892

and made him kilI 1 000 men.

914

01:
51:32,060 -- 01:51:36,814

ln China, he married King Yu

and ravaged the Iand.

915

01:
51:37,065 -- 01:51:39,149

ln Japan, as Princess Tamamo,

916

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51:39,317 -- 01:51:41,944

he caused great havoc at court.

917

01:
51:42,112 -- 01:51:46,657

He became a white fox

with nine taiIs.

918

01:
51:47,784 -- 01:51:51,662

Then they Iost trace of him.

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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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