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Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers. Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge cache of gold. Mifune is also desirous of freeing princess-in-exile Misa Uehara from the clutches of the evil victorious army. Several large and small battles ensue before Mifune can realize his goal. If
Unrated, 2 hr. 19 min.
Jan 1, 1958 Wide
Jun 28, 2010
Media Home Entertainment
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Essentially a superficial film and that Kurosawa, for all his talent, is as prone to pot-boiling as anyone else.
By introducing comedy into the mixture and telling the tale from an atypical perspective, Kurosawa has differentiated The Hidden Fortress from nearly every similar feudal era Japanese epic ever committed to the screen. This is a masterpiece.
Highly entertaining comical samurai film.
a masterpiece of composition, atmosphere, and subtext.
I enjoyed The Hidden Fortress as I do all of Kurosawa's movies...for those wonderful, keenly felt moments of life in harmonious balance with the world surrounding it
Why don't we have a Kurosawa altar at which to worship? After all, this is one temple I'd actually attend.
[An] exciting adventure epic.
No Star Wars fan should miss this suspiciously familiar samurai epic.
Kurosawa reminds us that he really is the best Samurai movie director ever ... There are many laugh out loud moments, and the film also bears some of Kurosawa's finest action sequences.
George Lucas gives this Kurosawa classic its props as one of his inspirations for Star Wars.
If Japanese cinema icon Akira Kurosawa ever made a comedy of sorts, this is it. The Hidden Fortress follows two bumbling, stumbling, bickering peasants named Matashichi and Tahei -- the odd couple of samurai flicks -- on a cross country trek with a defeated general, a misplaced princess, and 200 gold pieces. No one
January 29, 2011
Super Reviewer
To call this film a masterpiece is certainly an understatement. It is most prominently in film circles known as a direct inspiration for Star Wars, but I tend to leave those comparisons aside when viewing the actual film. It's just another round in the Kurosawa arsenal which was more powerful than any others at the
January 11, 2011
Super Reviewer
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