Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled compassion for people after he moves in with friends of his family as he tries to help a young man ruined by the war and a woman hounded by a wealthy but cruel suitor. All the characters are victims of the war and its devastating emotional aftershocks. Taken from Feodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel, the screenplay was written by the film's director, Akira Kurosawa.

Throne of Blood (1961) / Region Free DVD / Audio: Japanese / Subtitle: English, Japanese, Franch, Chinese / Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo / Director: Akira Kurosawa / Producers: Akira Kurosawa, Sôjirô Motoki / 110 mins ASIN: 7508041720 DVD Region Code: 0 One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare into film, Akira Kurosawas Throne of Blood re-imagines Macbeth in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawas longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells of a valiant warriors savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With Throne of Blood, Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeares greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh theater to make a Macbeth that is all his owna classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.

Ikiru (, Ikiru?) is a 1952 Japanese motion picture written and directed by the acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The title Ikiru translates to "to live" in English. The film examines the struggles of a Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning.

Ikiru (1952) / Region Free DVD / Audio: Japanese / Subtitle: English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese / Actors: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki / Director: Akira Kurosawa / Producers: Sôjirô Motoki / 143 mins ASIN: 7506461846 DVD Region Code: 0 In this film, considered by some critics to be Akira Kurosawa's greatest and most compassionate achievement, Takashi Shimura (Seven Samurai) portrays Kenji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days.

Red Beard (1968) / region free DVD / Audio: Japanese / Subtitle: English, Franch, Chinese / Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano / Directors: Akira Kurosawa / Run Time: 185 minutes ASIN: 7010084483 DVD Region Code: 0

Collection Akira Kurosawa 3 DVD : Scandale / L'idiot / Region 2 PAL DVD / European Edition / Audio: Japanese / Subtitle: French / Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yoko Katsuragi, Noriko Sengoku, Setsuko Hara / Director: Akira Kurosawa ASIN: 7508055799 DVD Region Code: 2

Drunken Angel (1948) / Region Free DVD / Audio: Japanese / Subtitle: English, Japanese, French, Chinese / Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita / Director: Akira Kurosawa

The Bad Sleep Well (1963) / Region Free DVD / Audio: Japanese / Subtitle: English, Japanese, French, Chinese / Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura / Director: Akira Kurosawa

Rashomon (1951) / Region Free DVD / Audio: Japanese / Subtitle: English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese / Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki / Director: Akira Kurosawa / Producers: Akira Kurosawa, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Shinobu Hashimoto / 88 mins ASIN: 7802491835 DVD Region Code: 0