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A. K. (1985)
An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)
Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death.
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What Is Cinema? (2013)
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
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Making of Ran (1985)
Behind the scenes of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, produced by Kurosawa Productions.
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).
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100
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Stray Dog' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "High and Low" (1963).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo" (1961).
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70
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ikiru' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Ran” (1985).
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A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies (2000)
A Documentary in 10 parts covering the film making of Kurosawa around the theme of making the perfect movie or as he says: A Beautiful Movie.
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In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki (1993)
An hour-long conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki which took place in Kurosawa's home near Mt. Fuji.
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Throne of Blood" (1957).
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Making of 'Dreams' (1990)
This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.
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Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema (1993)
Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to his films and his various film activities.
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Searching For Kurosawa
Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades later. Now, with the rediscovered clips and Mitsuhiko’s own recollections, the film pieces together an intimate portrait of cinema’s “Emperor,” revealing how a young cinephile’s passion helped preserve invaluable fragments of film history. In the course of unearthing lost footage, Kawamura’s life takes an ironic course; he loved movies so much that his life became a movie.
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The World of Kazuo Miyagawa (2012)
Renowned cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa collaborated with a number of great Japanese filmmakers, including Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Yasujiro Ozu. The following excerpts from the Japanese television documentary THE WORLD OF KAZUO MIYAGAWA explore Miyagawa and Kurosawa’s working relationship on RASHOMON.
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Lower Depths' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den' (2002)
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).


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