Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
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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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘The Most Beautiful’
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Most Beautiful" (1944).
In Love With and Living Within Movies - Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki
An hour-long conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki which took place in Kurosawa's home near Mt. Fuji.
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Dodes'ka-den'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Dodes'ka-den" (1970).
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two’
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two" (1945).
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘I Live in Fear’
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "I Live in Fear" (1955).
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘No Regrets for Our Youth’
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "No Regrets for Our Youth" (1946).
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: ‘The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail’
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail" (1945).
Dreams
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood
Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guard challengers—includ
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a hostile checkpoint.
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two
A few years after his breakthrough, Sanshiro resumes his path to judo mastery—testing his discipline against an American prizefighter and later facing vengeful karate brothers. As rival schools and public spectacle push
The Most Beautiful
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.” Led by Tsuru Watanabe, they fight fatigue and setbacks
A. K.
An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.
Making of 'Dreams'
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.