Kurosawa is a director whose movies you can watch over and over again and still get caught up. This collection collects four of his classics, when he was at the height of his creative power. Each one is a fresh take on a genre the Japanese were cranking out en masse at the time. (Three Bad Men In A) Hidden Fortress takes two scruffy louts who would normally be the comic relief and makes them the focus of the film instead of the samurai (George Lucas got the inspiration for R2D2 and C3PO from their bickering friendship); Yojimbo follows an immoral samurai's adventures in a town so that wicked he ends up being a good guy; Sanjuro mocks a flock of earnest but ineffectual nobles behaving in the traditional manner by having their savior and mentor be a rude, lazy and unconventional samurai. The Seven Samurai places the warriors in an incredibly rare position---defending poor villagers. The audio commentary during Seven Samurai was very well done and enlightening. This is a great collection by a great director.Read full review
DVD set came in good condition. All DVDs work. Love Kurosawa, this set was hard to find.
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These 4 movies were the inspiration for Star Wars.
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You can’t go wrong with Criterion! Kurosawa is as good as I’ve been told too!
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Outstanding cinema from a master of the art.
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I love this collection. It's beautifully done and contains plenty of extras. The movies themselves are fantastic. The only downside is the packaging; the box is flimsy, and it opens from the bottom rather than the side, so if you pick it up carelessly the individual dvds all fall out the bottom. Still, a great collection and worth watching time and again.
All four films are excellent. Seven Samurai is my favorite Kurosawa film, but the others included are topnotch. If you like samurai films, these films deliver. Ran, even though not included in this collection, is outstanding. The colors, the scenes, everything is 5 star.
Anything by Akira Kurosawa is excellent. This was an excellent deal on the set. Toshiro Mifune is one of the greatest actors ever.
These movies by Kurosawa are some of the most important films in Japanese cinema history. You will not be disapointed in them.
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