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The Hidden Fortress

Original title: 隠し砦の三悪人

What you make of another's kindness is up to you.

1958 · 2h 19m

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

8.0

TMDB audience score
750 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

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Cast

  • Toshirō Mifune
    General Rokurota Makabe

  • Minoru Chiaki
    Tahei

  • Kamatari Fujiwara
    Matashichi

  • Misa Uehara
    Princess Yuki

  • Susumu Fujita
    General Hyoe Tadokoro

  • Takashi Shimura
    General Izumi Nagakura

  • Ikio Sawamura
    Gambler (uncredited)

  • Kōji Mitsui
    Guard (uncredited)

  • Takeo Oikawa
    Guard (uncredited)

  • Yū Fujiki
    Guard (uncredited)

  • Yutaka Sada
    Guard (uncredited)

  • Haruo Suzuki
    Horseman (uncredited)

  • Haruya Sakamoto
    Horseman (uncredited)

  • Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi
    Horseman (uncredited)

  • Minoru Itō
    Horseman (uncredited)

  • Shigekatsu Kanazawa
    Horseman (uncredited)

  • Shin Ōtomo
    Horseman (uncredited)

  • Yoshio Tsuchiya
    Horseman (uncredited)