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About 1950 film directed by Akira Kurosawa
Genres drama, samurai cinema, crime, medieval, flashback
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Written by Akira Kurosawa, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyō, Minoru Chiaki, Masayuki Mori
Music Fumio Hayasaka
Runtime 88 min
Country Japan
Links Wikipedia · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikidata
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