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		<title>Drunken Angel DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drunken Angel is a 1948 Kurosawa movie starring Takashi Shimura as an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga (ToshirÅ Mifune), after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Quiet Duel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Quiet Duel is an early (1949) Kurosawa film in which ToshirÅ Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor, still a virgin, who works at his father&#8217;s clinic in a small and seedy district. During a life-saving operation he cuts himself contaminates himself and contracts syphilis, which at the time was virtually incurable. Now suffering with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Samurai Movies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The samurai were the noble military class of ancient Japan. The samurai are believed to have existed from 10th century up until the Meiji reforms of the 19th century. Although capable of brutal violence the samurai were also subject to a strict code of honour (Bushido), to the point of choosing ritual suicide by disembowelment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhapsody in August DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhapsody in August is a 1991 movie by Akira Kurosawa. The story centers on an elderly atomic bomb victim, who lost her husband in the 1945 attack on Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hidden Fortress DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hidden Fortress is a 1958 movie directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring ToshirÅ Mifune as General Rokurota Makabe and Misa Uehara as Princess Yuki. A literal translation of the Japanese title is The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress. The film begins with two luckless peasants, Tahei and Matashichi (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stray Dog DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stray Dog is a 1949 film noir directed by Akira Kurosawa. Rookie homicide detective Murakami (ToshirÅ Mifune) frantically seeks his stolen Colt pistol which, to his shame, has been pickpocketed on a bus. A manhunt begins when the stolen gun is used in a murder. The older and wiser detective, Sato (Takashi Shimura), takes Murakami [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s Dreams DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/247</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s Dreams (also known as Dreams, I Saw a Dream Like This, or Such Dreams I Have Dreamed) is a 1990 magical realism film based on actual dreams of the film&#8217;s director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life. The film is based more on imagery than on dialogue. One of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ran DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/245</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ran is a 1985 movie written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai), an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. The story is based on legends of the daimyo MÅri Motonari, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kagemusha DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/209</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kagemusha is a 1980 film by Akira Kurosawa starring Tatsuya Nakadai andÂ Tsutomu Yamazaki. The title (&#8220;Shadow Warrior&#8221; in Japanese) is a term used for an impersonator. It is set in the Warring States era of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ikiru DVD</title>
		<link>http://cultjapan.com/movies/archives/98</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning. The film stars Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe. Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years. Furthermore, his relationship [...]]]></description>
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