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Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita, Kichijiro Ueda, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Misa Uehara, Tadao Nakamaru, Toshiko Higuchi, Koji Mitsui, Hugo Dube, Matthew Dupuis, Isabelle Cyr, Patrick Labbe, Georges Brossard, Jerome Leclerc-Couture, Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau, Jean-Philippe Debien, Charli Arcouette-Martineau, Xavier Dolan-Tadros, Laurent-Christophe De Ruelle, Jérémy Gagnon, Carmina Sénosier, Émilie Cyrenne-Parent, Serge-Olivier Paquette
Genre: Action, Family, Drama, Adventure
Release Date: January 1, 1958, June 22, 2001
MPAA Rating: Unrated, G
Runtime: 2hrs 19min, 1hr 34min

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review by RowanK. December 07, 2009

posted in Reel Overseas

Flawed Experiment

Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential storytellers in the history of cinema, using primarily samurai-based films to toy with different narrative devices. Arguably the most well-known of these is Rashomon, whose method of different people telling irreconcilable variations of the same event has become something of a subgenre on its own. The Hidden Fortress tells a fairly epic story: a samurai family has been crushed in battle, and now its final heir and loyal general must try to escape to … more

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review by woopak_the_thrill. February 10, 2009

posted in ASIANatomy

4 ½ Stars: Kurosawa Akira's Next Jidai Geki Masterpiece!

The HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958, aka. Kakushi toride no san akunin) is Akira Kurosawa's first widescreen-shot film and the famed director uses it as if he has been a master of it for many years. In a period where warring clans in Japan, the film is all about loyalty, honor, greed and betrayal but the film is also the most well-spirited, fun-loving samurai adventure that Kurosawa had directed after "Ran" and "Throne of Blood". Think the "Treasure of Sierra Madre" collides with George Lucas' "Star Wars"--without … more

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