Hungry Samurai:

The Akira Kurosawa Section

Director


Merv Griffin's Japanese game show,
Wheel of Doom, was short-lived.

(films listed chronologically)
(English Titles Used except where a film
is better known by it Japanese title in the U.S.)

Akira Kurosawa by John Brennan
The Kurosawa Players, Part One
The Kurosawa Players, Part Two

The War Years (1943-1945)
Sanshiro Sugata (Judo Story)
The Most Beautiful
Sanshiro Sugata, Part 2
They Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

The Formative Years (1946-1950)
No Regrets For Our Youth
One Wonderful Sunday
Drunken Angel
A Quiet Duel
Stray Dog
Scandal

The Classic Years (1950-1965)
Rashomon
The Idiot
Ikiru
Seven Samurai
Record of a Living Being (I Live in Fear)
Throne of Blood
The Lower Depths
Hidden Fortess
The Bad Sleep Well
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
High and Low
Red Beard

The Post-Mifune Struggles (1970-1985)
Dodeskaden
Dersu Uzula
Kagemusha
Ran

Coda (1990-1993)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa's Dreams)
Rhapsody in August
Madadayo

For other Japanese films, see our sections on Japanese Cinema , Toshiro Mifune and Zatoichi