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Akira Kurosawa
From Seven Samurai and Rashomon to Yojimbo and Ran, Jasper Sharp celebrates the innovative, influential, world-conquering films of master Japanese director Akira Kurosawa.
As the British Film Institute launches a nationwide Akira Kurosawa retrospective, Jasper Sharp celebrates one of the titans of Japanese cinema, whose innovative and influential films have thrilled audiences around the world, from the Oscar-winning Rashomon, a film widely heralded as launching the wide-scale international interest in Japanese cinema in the 1950s, to the classic action-adventure films Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, to Kurosawa's resetting of Shakespeare in feudal Japan, Throne of Blood and Ran.
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