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- 1960
- Not Rated
- 2 h 19 m
- 1960
- Not Rated
- 2 h 19 m
Summary Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Written By: Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa
- 1960
- Not Rated
- 2 h 19 m
- 1960
- Not Rated
- 2 h 19 m
The Hidden Fortress
8.2
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Summary Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Written By: Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
89
94% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Kurosawa's 1958 classic samurai comedy adventure; George Lucas used it as the model for Star Wars, in which Mifune and the two squabbling farmers are transformed into Han Solo, C-3PO and R2-D2. [03 Mar 2006, p.C5]
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 that deserves more credit than it is often given.
Few other directors can get so much violent power from their landscapes and their people. No image is boring. [01 Feb 1962, p.11]
The Hidden Fortress is, above all, a roaring piece of entertainment, a Western-like samurai adventure set against the chaos of 16th-century Japan.
Kurosawa most often did his finest work when combining his idiosyncratic and popular sensibilities into humane, broadly accessible entertainments; it just so happens that The Hidden Fortress remains more unabashedly entertaining than most.
the picture is really director Akira Kurosawa’s, who takes what could have been a terribly unwieldy subject and makes it believable and highly entertaining. Ichio Yamazaki’s camerawork is first-rate.
This is not to say that the action is not vivid, exciting and tense, or that Kurosawa's camera is any less graphic than it usually is. This is simply to say that The Hidden Fortress is essentially a superficial film and that Kurosawa, for all his talent, is as prone to pot-boiling as anyone else.
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