Rashōmon​

Akira Kurosawa 
Japan  ·  1950  

Innovative photography and skilled direction create a brilliant illustration of the elusiveness of objective truth in this samurai murder mystery. Kurosawa's international breakthrough.  

​“Pure cinema… there's almost no need for words” – Judy Bloch, PFA

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Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa
​Japan  ·  1952

A favourite of Steven Spielberg, this deeply affecting, humanist masterpiece stars Kurosawa regular Takashi Shimura as an ordinary civil servant who discovers what it means to live.

“Piercing emotion and poetry… seems to take x-rays of the human spirit” – New Yorker

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High and Low
Tengoku to jigoku

Akira Kurosawa
​Japan ·  1963
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A kidnapping sparks a moral dilemma for a wealthy executive in this superb, suspenseful noir adapted from a novel by Ed McBain.

“One of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” – New York Times
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