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Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 black and white Japanese masterwork Ikiru [Living] [Doomed] is a gloomy but extremely affecting portrait of Japanese society through the story of an obscure old civil servant who finds he has […]
Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1965 Japanese film Red Beard [Akahige] stars Toshiro Mifune as Dr Kyojō Niide, a grizzled elderly town doctor nicknamed Red Beard, who introduces his young and arrogant new trainee intern Dr Noboru […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical Call Me Mister stars Betty Grable and Dan Dailey in their fourth and final pairing after Mother Wore Tights in 1947, When My Baby Smiles at Me […]
Director Ishirō Honda’s quaint and hysterical but fondly remembered 1962 Japanese kaiju monster movie King Kong vs Godzilla [Kingu Kongu tai Gojira] is the third film in the Godzilla franchise, and the first of two […]
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1944 black-and-white war drama Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a careful version of the events surrounding the US bombing of Tokyo in 1942 in The Doolittle Raid, a secret bombing mission to […]
Yasujirô Ozu’s elegant and elegiac final film An Autumn Afternoon (1962) serves as a fine epitaph for one of the world’s great directors. In the autumn of his life, Yasujirô Ozu directed the elegant and […]
‘BUSHIDO means revenge – BUSHIDO means bloodshed – BUSHIDO means violent death!’ Director Tsugunobu [Tom] Kotani’s 19th-century-set Kung Fu action thriller The Bushido Blade [The Bloody Bushido Blade](1981) stars Richard Boone as Commodore Matthew Perry, […]