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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780021952
ISBN: 0780021959
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2001
Running Time: 139 minutes
Sales Rank: 26349
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 1960
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Description:
A general and a princess must dodge enemy clans while smuggling the royal treasure out of hostile territory with two bumbling, conniving peasants at their sides; it's a spirited adventure that only Akira Kurosawa could create. Acknowledged as a primary influence on George Lucas' Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa's inimitably deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action and humanist compassion on an epic scale. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this landmark motion picture in a stunning, newly-restored Tohoscope edition.
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In one of the many classic collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and his leading man Toshirô Mifune, this 1958 film tells the story of a warrior and a princess trying against all odds to return to their homeland with their fortune. Along the way, they are simultaneously assisted and thwarted by two itinerant and not too bright farmers with their own designs on the treasure, giving the story a subtle comic bent. The Hidden Fortress combines an epic tale of struggle and honor with modern comic sensibilities, creating a masterful addition to world cinema. --Robert Lane
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great movie
The princess with the Spock eyebrows and the martial arts Samurai
with the peasants as comedy relief.
And always the gold...with humor and pathos.
We see ancient Japan with different eyes after seeing this movie.
Rating:  - Good
Those film viewers who equate foreign films with pretense need to sit down for a couple of hours and watch director Akira Kurosawa's first widescreen (Tohoscope) film, the black and white The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-Toride No San-Akunin- literally The Three Villains Of The Hidden Fortress), from 1958. While it is a very good film, it is a great movie- in the feel good sense of the term. Filmmaker George Lucas claims this film was the inspiration for his third rate Star Wars films. Yes, there are ... Read More
Rating: - 4 ½ + Stars: Akira Kurosawa's Next JIDAI GEKI Masterpiece...
The HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958, aka. Kakushi toride no san akunin) is Akira Kurosawa's first widescreen-shot film and the famed director uses it as if he has been a master of it for many years. In a period where warring clans in Japan, the film is all about loyalty, honor, greed and betrayal but the film is also the most well-spirited, fun-loving samurai adventure that Kurosawa had directed after "Ran" and "Throne of Blood". Think the "Treasure of Sierra Madre" collides with George Lucas' "Star Wars"- ... Read More
Rating:  - They Can't All Be Seven Samurai
Though it is a step below Kurosawa's bonafide masterpieces, The Hidden Fortress is a clever and exciting comedy-adventure film and solidly entertaining in its own right.Toshiro Mifune is in top form and he is ably helped by Misa Uehara as a princess & Minoru Chiaki & Kamatari Fujiwara as the bumbling, greedy, cowardly peasants who unwittingly help restore a princess to her throne.
Kurosawa keeps the tone light by keeping the action and eye-candy plentiful and not concerning ... Read More
Rating: - The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection by Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara
"The Hidden Fortress" is interesting primarily because it gave George Lucas ideas for "Star Wars". which is why I got it, the influence is obvious. An interesting combat scenes with Toshirô Mifune (mounted & dismounted w/spear).
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