AK 100: 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa

Price: $284.99

What better way to celebrate December 25th than with 25 films by Japan’s undisputed master? Kurosawa is one of the silver screen’s most emotive and inventive storytellers, as this exhaustive box set will surely attest. My personal favorites here include: Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, The Bad Sleep Well, and High and Low. The Bad Sleep Well, a sort of re-imagining of Hamlet for salarymen, features what is arguably the greatest architectural cake to ever appear on film. —Sam Grawe

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