Filmed 20 years after the end of World War II, Kurosawa's Red Beard looks at the problem of social injustice. Toshiro Mifune stars as compassionate clinic director Akahige ("Red Beard"), who is viewed ...

When the names of the world’s greatest film directors are discussed, the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa often enters the conversation. As a screenwriter, director, and producer, he worked in Japan ...

This last collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune was released in 1965, and it’s a three-hour episodic super-soap opera about the emotional education of a callow young ...

Even the modest projects of Japan’s Akira Kurosawa are conceived and executed on a grand scale. Whether his subjectis history (Seven Samurai), social commentary (The Bad Sleep Well), classic drama ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...