Kakushi-Toride no San-Akunin (1958)
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Duration: 139 minuten
Alternative titles: The Hidden Fortress / 隠し砦の三悪人
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara
IMDb score:
8,0 (45.533)
Releasedate: 28 December 1958
Kakushi-Toride no San-Akunin plot
Two cowardly peasants want to flee to their land during the war and find a lot of gold along the way. They meet a general, a princess and find a secret fortress. The general wants to smuggle the princess across the border and the farmers want to cross the border with the gold. They decide to work together.
Actors and actresses
General Rokurota Makabe
Tahei
Matashichi
Princess Yuki
General Hyoe Tadokoro
General Izumi Nagakura
Gambler (uncredited)
Guard (uncredited)
Guard (uncredited)
Guard (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
Leland Palmer
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Mighty adventure. It was time for a Kurosawa again. 'The Hidden Fortress' is my 10th best man (yet). Fortunately, there are still a few in the pile. Anyway, I really enjoyed this picture. The start with the two arguing farmers is a hit. Delicious. What is also immediately noticeable is the beautiful widescreen format. Does the film well, of course, because the beautiful images that we are presented here need it. Kurosawa comes up with beautiful locations.
Furthermore, this is just wonderfully relaxed to sit back and enjoy the particularly entertaining adventure. Toshirô Mifune is of course present again. Can always enjoy that man. That head alone is fantastic. The two farmers provide the comic relief in between and the camera flies through everything like crazy. That chase of Mifune on horseback is very nicely shot, eg. Many highlights in this light-hearted adventure. The hats off to Kurosawa .. and on to the next one.
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Fisico
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Films from historical feudal Japan somewhere in the Middle Ages are not always the most accessible films. Often theatrical and also very often of long duration. This The hidden fortress is somewhere in between: a little more aimed at the general public and a fairly tight plot in which there is the necessary speed without seeing really spectacular things.
The two farmers and so do the other characters keep yelling as if their lives depended on it, but Tahei and Matakichi deliver an amusing spectacle as greedy but also bickering stupid farmers. The characters are quite caricatured and the feudal system at the time of ancient Japan is very prominent. The princess is a demigod who is never questioned and her bodyguard Rokurota is a dog-faithful heroic warrior. At the bottom of the ladder you get the farmers who have few positive qualities to say the least.
The hidden fortress is a nice adventure film to have seen, but I didn't see much more than that. Together with The seven Samurai and Ran I keep stirring in the same historical "epic pot". Not all bad, but it never really got me wild. Fortunately, with Ikiru (1952) I also saw a different style of Kurosawa.
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Filmkriebel
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Nice old-fashioned adventure film with all the trimmings, more like a family film. Two money-hungry vagabonds join a general in his quest to rescue a princess of a fallen empire. With Kurosawa you usually expect a more serious tone and harder characters; it is therefore quite surprising to see two comical pals in a leading role here. And so we end up in a light-hearted rogue film whose characters come across as fairly cartoonish. Why not? I thought there was enough fun to do in those 135 minutes, the locations/sets are extremely successful.
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