Kôichi Hamamura

Most Popular Kôichi Hamamura Trailers

Total trailers found: 16

Seven Samurai Trailer (1954)

26 April 1954

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Yojimbo Trailer (1961)

25 April 1961

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade.

Dreams Trailer (1990)

11 May 1990

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

The Pillow Book Trailer (1995)

01 September 1995

Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Throne of Blood' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Throne of Blood" (1957).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Yojimbo" (1961).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Drunken Angel' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Drunken Angel" (1948).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).

Rhapsody in August Trailer (1991)

25 May 1991

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Kagemusha" (1980).

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun Trailer (1981)

19 December 1981

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

The Challenge Trailer (1982)

23 July 1982

Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman.

The Phoenix Trailer (1978)

12 August 1978

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life.

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Ran' Trailer (2002)

25 October 2002

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Ran” (1985).