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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
1,231 Views


919

01:
51:52,330 -- 01:51:54,623

Some peopIe say

920

01:
51:54,749 -- 01:51:57,626

he settIed down here.

921

01:
51:58,753 -- 01:52:01,213

So beware, my Lord, beware.

922

01:
52:17,689 -- 01:52:21,316

This is how you keep our bargain.

923

01:
52:21,484 -- 01:52:23,610

You conspire with Kurogane

924

01:
52:23,778 -- 01:52:25,571

to humiliate me!

925

01:
52:25,739 -- 01:52:27,531

No, you're wrong.

926

01:
52:27,699 -- 01:52:28,949

Intolerable!

927

01:
52:29,576 -- 01:52:31,702

lt's Kurogane's doing.

928

01:
52:37,375 -- 01:52:39,209

Always Kurogane!

929

01:
52:40,044 -- 01:52:42,254

ls he your only vassal?

930

01:
52:43,590 -- 01:52:46,008

He's the vilIain who kiIls Taro.

931

01:
52:46,176 -- 01:52:49,011

He's the hero who saves Su.

932

01:
52:49,179 -- 01:52:51,346

A two-headed monster!

933

01:
52:51,514 -- 01:52:53,599

This is your "right arm"?

934

01:
52:55,935 -- 01:52:58,145

UntiI l have Su's head,

935

01:
52:58,313 -- 01:53:00,397

you shalI not see me again!

936

01:
53:16,748 -- 01:53:18,999

Sister... my flute!

937

01:
53:19,167 -- 01:53:20,626

We've no time to get it!

938

01:
53:20,794 -- 01:53:22,503

l've had it since boyhood.

939

01:
53:22,670 -- 01:53:24,546

What shaIl we do?

940

01:
53:24,714 -- 01:53:27,466

Kurogane said

they'lI pursue you.

941

01:
53:27,634 -- 01:53:29,927

I'lI go back for the flute.

942

01:
53:30,094 -- 01:53:31,345

Your Iegs are oId.

943

01:
53:31,513 -- 01:53:33,430

l'm the one to go.

944

01:
53:33,598 -- 01:53:36,433

We're near the ruins of your castIe.

945

01:
53:36,601 -- 01:53:40,062

Go there and pray for your dead.

946

01:
53:40,230 -- 01:53:43,398

You may never be back again.

947

01:
53:50,365 -- 01:53:52,449

Tsurumaru, Iet's hurry.

948

01:
54:00,124 -- 01:54:03,836

l see our castIe.

That is, what's left of it.

949

01:
54:03,962 -- 01:54:05,504

Which way, sister?

950

01:
54:05,672 -- 01:54:07,214

Over there.

951

01:
54:12,846 -- 01:54:14,221

Where?

952

01:
55:02,353 -- 01:55:04,771

Earth and sky are topsy-turvy.

953

01:
55:04,939 -- 01:55:07,608

I was the fool and made him Iaugh.

954

01:
55:08,151 -- 01:55:11,111

Now the coin is flipped.

955

01:
55:14,866 -- 01:55:17,117

Don't be mute, say something.

956

01:
55:17,827 -- 01:55:21,371

You speak nonsense,

I'lI speak truth.

957

01:
55:22,790 -- 01:55:25,208

We'lI see what comes of it.

958

01:
55:29,172 -- 01:55:31,381

Begin, oId man!

959

01:
55:43,353 -- 01:55:46,229

A serpent's egg is white and pure.

960

01:
55:46,814 -- 01:55:48,774

A bird's is speckIed and soiIed.

961

01:
55:49,734 -- 01:55:52,027

This is a castle...

962

01:
55:54,113 -- 01:55:55,489

Here's a walI.

963

01:
55:55,657 -- 01:55:58,867

The bird Ieft the speckled egg

for the white.

964

01:
56:00,036 -- 01:56:01,078

Strange...

965

01:
56:01,245 -- 01:56:03,413

The egg cracks, out comes a snake.

966

01:
56:03,581 -- 01:56:06,917

Empty space above the waIl.

967

01:
56:08,044 -- 01:56:08,877

Why?

968

01:
56:09,045 -- 01:56:11,380

The bird is gobbIed by the snake.

969

01:
56:18,304 -- 01:56:20,138

Where am I?

970

01:
56:23,226 -- 01:56:25,060

Who am I?

971

01:
56:25,478 -- 01:56:27,270

Stupid bird!

972

01:
56:31,067 -- 01:56:32,651

Saburo...

973

01:
56:40,410 -- 01:56:42,494

lt hurts.

974

01:
56:45,415 -- 01:56:48,542

I'm a worm, don't crush me!

975

01:
56:50,086 -- 01:56:54,006

Who'd bother to crush a worm?

976

01:
56:58,594 -- 01:57:01,096

Who are you?

977

01:
57:25,580 -- 01:57:27,622

ls someone crying?

978

01:
57:32,336 -- 01:57:34,296

Who's crying?

979

01:
57:36,716 -- 01:57:38,133

HeIl!

980

01:
57:38,342 -- 01:57:40,302

Man is born crying.

981

01:
57:40,470 -- 01:57:42,971

When he's cried enough, he dies.

982

01:
59:15,690 -- 01:59:18,525

Saburo has crossed the river.

983

01:
59:18,651 -- 01:59:20,402

He's now in Hachiman FieId.

984

01:
59:20,528 -- 01:59:24,698

lt makes no sense.

What can he do with such few men?

985

01:
59:28,536 -- 01:59:30,453

Message from Lord Saburo.

986

01:
59:32,957 -- 01:59:35,041

He is here to find his father.

987

01:
59:36,335 -- 01:59:39,254

That done, he wilI Ieave in peace.

988

01:
59:43,718 -- 01:59:45,802

Fujimaki is at the border.

989

01:
59:59,525 -- 02:00:01,234

l don't Iike it.

990

02:
00:01,402 -- 02:00:03,737

l didn't want reinforcements.

991

02:
00:04,405 -- 02:00:06,239

You should be gIad.

992

02:
00:06,407 -- 02:00:07,949

Thanks to Fujimaki,

993

02:
00:08,159 -- 02:00:10,911

the enemy is pinned down here.

994

02:
00:11,078 -- 02:00:15,207

We can rescue your father

from Azusa Plain.

995

02:
00:16,209 -- 02:00:19,586

But it looks so aggressive.

996

02:
00:20,046 -- 02:00:23,173

One false move couId mean war.

997

02:
00:31,599 -- 02:00:34,184

Maybe I was too hasty.

998

02:
00:34,894 -- 02:00:37,729

My worry spurred me on,

999

02:
00:37,897 -- 02:00:40,607

but my son-in-law wilI grumble.

1000

02:
00:41,234 -- 02:00:44,945

Sitting here, we pose no threat.

1001

02:
00:58,417 -- 02:01:00,335

Prepare for battIe!

1002

02:
01:04,006 -- 02:01:06,758

My Lord, this is ilI-advised.

1003

02:
01:06,926 -- 02:01:09,636

Let Saburo have his father.

1004

02:
01:09,804 -- 02:01:11,554

Avoid this war.

1005

02:
01:11,973 -- 02:01:14,099

Once he has Father,

1006

02:
01:14,350 -- 02:01:19,104

he'Il accuse me

of treason and attack.

1007

02:
01:20,106 -- 02:01:22,482

We can't give up Hidetora,

1008

02:
01:22,650 -- 02:01:24,985

we don't know where he is.

1009

02:
01:25,152 -- 02:01:28,154

There is much unrest in the land.

1010

02:
01:28,322 -- 02:01:31,157

Fujimaki and Ayabe bide their time.

1011

02:
01:31,325 -- 02:01:35,120

We need to retrench, not attack.

1012

02:
01:39,041 -- 02:01:41,710

Lady Kaede awaits Lord Jiro

1013

02:
01:42,920 -- 02:01:46,673

to ceIebrate

his departure for battIe.

1014

02:
01:49,844 -- 02:01:54,014

A warIord doesn't run to his woman.

1015

02:
01:54,473 -- 02:01:56,016

Stay away.

1016

02:
02:22,710 -- 02:02:24,753

When the enemy is assembIed,

1017

02:
02:24,962 -- 02:02:27,339

we can go after his Iordship.

1018

02:
02:27,506 -- 02:02:30,425

Be patient. Rest the horses!

1019

02:
02:31,719 -- 02:02:33,094

Dismount!

1020

02:
02:35,097 -- 02:02:36,556

Weakling!

1021

02:
02:40,311 -- 02:02:43,229

Kurogane has swayed you again.

1022

02:
02:43,647 -- 02:02:44,898

No.

1023

02:
02:45,399 -- 02:02:46,524

lt's no time for war.

1024

02:
02:46,692 -- 02:02:49,736

Wars are won by strong leaders.

1025

02:
02:49,904 -- 02:02:53,073

Why fear Fujimaki and Ayabe?

1026

02:
02:56,702 -- 02:02:58,411

Your mistake

1027

02:
02:58,788 -- 02:03:02,916

was to spare Hidetora, mad or not.

1028

02:
03:05,002 -- 02:03:08,213

To kilI him, l have to find him.

1029

02:
03:10,925 -- 02:03:14,094

Saburo knows where he is.

1030

02:
03:15,221 -- 02:03:18,681

Otherwise, he wouIdn't have come.

1031

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03:28,401 -- 02:03:29,734

Send him a message.

1032

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03:29,902 -- 02:03:32,779

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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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