The Quiet Duel is one of the earliest ventures handled by Akira Kurosawa. Takashi Shimura won the Mainichi Film Concours in the Best Actor category for his performance in the flick. During World War II, young doctor Kyoji Fujisaki (Toshirô Mifune) cuts himself while operating on a patient Susumu Nakada […]
Akira Kurosawa
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For the last several years Hollywood has been pumping out one terrible remake/reboot/retread after another. The “R” words are constantly on everyones tongues. It’s like there’s some strange disease spreading in the studio production offices that’s wiping out the last bits of creativity and integrity Hollywood has. Then again, Hollywood […]
Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) is a ronin (renegade samurai) looking for food and money. He overhears a group of 10 samurai warriors talking and finds out they’re in trouble. The superintendent’s men are coming to arrest them, but Sanjuro offers to help them out. When the men arrive to take them […]