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In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
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The Hidden Fortress
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Toshirō Mifune Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Misa Uehara Susumu Fujita Takashi Shimura Ikio Sawamura Kōji Mitsui Takeo Oikawa Yū Fujiki Yutaka Sada Haruo Suzuki Haruya Sakamoto Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi Minoru Itō Shigekatsu Kanazawa Shin Ōtomo Yoshio Tsuchiya Eiko Miyoshi Toranosuke Ogawa Kokuten Kōdō Etsurō Saijō Fuminori Ōhashi Masayoshi Nagashima Takeshi Katō Toshiko Higuchi Kichijirō Ueda Nakajirō Tomita Yoshifumi Tajima Show All…
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Alternative Titles
Three Bad Men in a Hidden Fortress, Three Rascals in the Hidden Fortress, 숨은 요새의 세 악인, かくしとりでのさんあくにん, The Three Villains of the Hidden Fortress, Kakushi toride no san akunin, La fortaleza escondida, Die verborgene Festung, La Forteresse cachée, Kätketty linnake, La fortezza nascosta, Den vilda flykten, 战国英豪, Tři zločinci ve skryté pevnosti, A Fortaleza Escondida, המבצר הנסתר, Fortăreața ascunsă, Saklı Kale, Трое негодяев в скрытой крепости, Το Μυστικό Φρούριο, Paslėpta tvirtovė, Ukryta forteca, 숨겨진 요새의 세 악인, 戰國英豪, Den skjulte fæstning, დამალული ციხესიმაგრე, دژ پنهان, Rejtett erőd
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Theatrical limited
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AustraliaPG
Theatrical
28 Dec 1958
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FranceTP
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Japan
18 Jan 1960
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Denmark15
05 Apr 1984
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SpainA
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01 Feb 2002
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UKPG
16 Nov 2004
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Netherlands12
08 Mar 2017
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France
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Australia
26 Oct 2024
- Theatrical limitedPG Re-Release
Denmark
18 Jan 1960
- Theatrical15
France
28 Dec 1958
- TheatricalTP
08 Mar 2017
- Physical
Japan
28 Dec 1958
- Theatrical
Netherlands
16 Nov 2004
- Physical12 DVD
Spain
05 Apr 1984
- TheatricalA
UK
01 Feb 2002
- PhysicalPG Re-release
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This unexpectedly became "family movie night" when my older boy -- he's 8 -- walked into my office and said, "So Star Wars is really about the two droids?" and I said, sort of. I explained that George Lucas had seen Hidden Fortress and liked telling a larger story through the supporting characters. So I showed him the first ten minutes of the movie, reading the subtitles aloud so he could keep up. He loved it. I was worried about the violence but it's the tamest of samurai pictures. Then my youngest came in -- he's 5 -- and started watching. They were completely hooked. Then my wife came in for the last hour, and we watched as a family. And that's how my boys saw their first Kurosawa and first b&w samurai movie.
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At certain points in their careers, even cinema’s greatest auteurs have needed to cover their asses with a hit; it’s the nature of the beast, and even the most thoroughly housebroken of pets still needs to be fed. For Akira Kurosawa — a soft-hearted tyrant who lorded over his sets like an emperor, tamed the feral Toshirô Mifune into one of filmdom’s most nuanced stars, and remapped the possibilities of his medium with arthouse classics and rousing samurai epics alike — that wasn’t going to be a problem. At least not at the height of his powers.
Kurosawa had earned a tremendous amount of goodwill after the critical and commercial success of 1954’s “Seven Samurai,” and by 1958 he’d spent…
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Star Wars without fucking Ewoks or Jar Jar fucking Binks. Cadaver stink. Dead-body armor. C-3PO and R2-D2's silly fuckin' cousins. A huge-ass reward. Fuckin' grave diggin'. Where's da fuckin' gold at? Escaping like Steve fuckin' McQueen. The way Toshiro Mifune laughs. The Rebel fuckin' Alliance. The great rock climb. The Death fuckin' Star. A legendary samurai general. Who's that girl? All hot and sweaty. Rapid-fuckin'-blinking. A comb. Duty served. Reverse psychology. A vow of silence. Golden firewood. She might be a mute, but she ain't fucking dumb. Fool's gold. A not-so-pimpin' pimp. A fuckin' lightsaber duel without fuckin' lightsabers. The Fire fuckin' Festival. Faces in the fuckin' crowd. Hiding out in the fuckin' woods. Tied up and fucked. Beautiful fuckin'…
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from here on out, i’m prioritizing my kurosawa watches based on how many times toshirō mifune’s mighty thighs are displayed.
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Esperaba de todo con esta película, menos reírme tanto. Estuvo divertidísima.
Si Star Wars funcionó, fue porque George Lucas se inspiró del mejor.
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This film is, like Yojimbo, light fare for Kurosawa. It's an adventure story. There are themes here, important and intelligent points, but the focus is on the comic relief characters. Its themes of hidden depths and open subterfuges require their roles to be prominent, because they are the most gullible (therefore the perspective from which it is best to frame the subterfuges) and with the thickest layer of obfuscation around their worth. In a bit of almost cynical humanism, it can be said that their worth is in their lack of it; it requires their flaws to be as prominent as the general's loyalty to give the princess a full perspective of the human race.
This is what passes for…
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Akira Kurosawa's Are We There Yet?, starring handsome dad mifune in super short shorts, as always. There's a fantastic spear duel and a wholesome ending. Perfect length, easy to consume, showed this to a friend and he absolutely loved it, "bro you got to show me more of these kurosawa movies man, they are so delightful to watch" ah fuck yes, sweet nectar to my ears, fuck yes.
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the perfect adventure.
an incredibly virile toshiro mifune doing power stances in short-shorts with this hyper-tactile b&w cinemascope is exactly what movies were made for
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Sisyphean struggle up the slopes of the hidden fortress – but with the stone staying on top in the end.
The Hidden Fortress is a tricky one to rate: on one hand, it is a well-executed action–adventure film with a sprightly atmosphere, on the other, I wanted more depth beyond the bare narrative (especially after last night's Rashomon). There is no denying that Kurosawa is a master storyteller: here, he starts from the outer husk and acquaints us with two stock characters, whose comicality is just a tad bit overplayed. Then he prods deeper into the narrative, and reveals that the two of them are insignificant figures within a much grander plot involving feral clan warfare and a…
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