Highly entertaining comical samurai film.
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06/22/09
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:22
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: During a civil war in 16th-century feudal Japan, two cowardly farmers (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) stumble upon Makabe (Toshirô Mifune), a fierce army general. Escaping from hostile... [More]
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Reviews for The Hidden Fortress
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05/02/09
a masterpiece of composition, atmosphere, and subtext.
04/06/09
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03/26/09
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02/29/08
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12/30/06
Top CriticI 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
08/26/06
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06/24/06
Why don't we have a Kurosawa altar at which to worship? After all, this is one temple I'd actually attend.
11/14/05
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07/22/05
[An] exciting adventure epic.
05/22/05
Essentially a superficial film and that Kurosawa, for all his talent, is as prone to pot-boiling as anyone else.
05/09/05
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05/11/04
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.
06/20/03
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.
03/27/03
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03/27/03
George Lucas gives this Kurosawa classic its props as one of his inspirations for Star Wars.
03/10/03
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10/25/02
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07/26/02
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