release December 8, 2009 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa

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I have 20 of his films, he is one of my favorite directors.

The creator of such timeless masterpieces as Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and High and Low, Akira Kurosawa is one of the most influential and beloved filmmakers who ever lived—and for many the greatest artist the medium has known. Now, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the Criterion Collection is proud to present this deluxe box set celebrating his astonishing career. Featuring twenty-five of the films he made over the course of his fifty years in movies—from samurai epics to postwar noirs to Shakespeare adaptations—AK 100 is the most complete set of his works ever released in this country, and includes four rare films that have never been available on DVD.

Collector's set includes

Sanshiro Sugata, 1943
The Most Beautiful, 1944
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two, 1945
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's TailAkira Kurosawa, 1945
No Regrets for Our Youth, 1946
One Wonderful Sunday, 1947
Drunken Angel, 1948
Stray Dog, 1949
Scandal, 1950
Rashomon, 1950
The Idiot, 1951
Ikiru, 1952
Seven Samurai, 1954
I Live in Fear, 1955
Throne of Blood, 1957
The Lower Depths, 1957
The Hidden Fortress, 1958
The Bad Sleep Well, 1960
Yojimbo, 1961
Sanjuro, 1962
High and Low, 1963
Red Beard, 1965
Dodes’ka-den, 1970
Kagemusha, 1980
Madadayo, 1993
Disc Features
* This deluxe, linen-bound collector’s set includes twenty-five films and an illustrated book featuring an introduction and notes on each of the films by Stephen Prince (The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa) and a remembrance by Donald Richie (The Films of Akira Kurosawa).