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- Release Date: 1960
- Runtime: 139 min
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara ... see all
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Plot: The story follows two greedy peasants in feudal Japan, Tahei and Matashichi, who are returning home from a failed attempt to profit from a war between neighboring clans. En Route... Read more
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James Berardinelli's Reviews
The Hidden Fortress ' best action sequences occur during the last forty minutes.....The Hidden Fortress represents a nearly perfect blend of absurd comedy and rousing adventure.....By the standards of the day, this was spectacular, breathtaking filmmaking.....Unlike many of the great Japanese director's best-known efforts, The Hidden Fortress has not been remade in another language....He uses every millimeter of the frame, creating gorgeous compositions that stretch from one side of the screen to the other. ... Full Review
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The 2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul opened last night with some of South Korea's biggest stars in attendance and the screening of Japanese director Shinji Higuchi's Hidden Fortress: The Last Princess . ... Full Article
Toho to remake Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress
screendaily.com –
2007-10-30
Japanese studio Toho is set to produce a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1958 samurai film The Hidden Fortress , to be directed by Shinji Higuchi. ... Full Article
Web varsity launches Kurosawa film school
dnaindia.com –
1998-09-06
Agencies Globally acclaimed Japanese Film Maker Akira Kurosawa, whose award-winning cinematic masterpieces inspired such classic Hollywood movies as Star Wars (The Hidden Fortress), The Magnificent Seven (Seven Samurai) and A Fistful of Dollars (Yojimbo) is being honoured through the naming... ... Full Article
With usual front-man Toshiro Mifune at the fore, this film couldn't have gone too wrong. But the real focus of the story is on a pair of escaped thieves who, despite their initial bickerings, soon become friends of an almost... ... Full Article
Long ago and far, far away, in a worn-torn feudal Japan, two graspingly venal peasant stooges, Tahei (Minoru Chaiki) and Matakishi (Kamatari Fujiwara), have escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp and are trying to get back home when they run into... ... Full Article