Hulu (www.hulu.com) is celebrating the prolific career of iconic Japanese director Akira Kurosawa by making 24 of his Criterion films available free all weekend.
March 23 is Kurosawa’s birthday. He was born in 1910 and died in 1998 at the age of 88.
The following films, spanning Kurosawa’s 50-year career as a director (1943-1993), are available for viewing:
“Sanshiro Sugata” (1943) 1 hr. 19 min.
“The Most Beautiful” (1944) 1 hr. 25 min.
“Sanshiro Sugata Part 2” (1945) 1 hr. 22 min.
“No Regrets for Our Youth” (1946) 1 hr. 50 min.
“The Wonderful Sunday” (1947) 1 hr. 49 min.
“Drunken Angel” (1948) 1 hr. 38 min.
“Stray Dog” (1949) 2 hr. 2 min.
“Rashomon” (1950) 1 hr. 28 min.
“Scandal” (1950) 1 hr. 45 min.
“The Idiot” (1951) 2 hr. 46 min.
“Ikiru” (1952) 2 hr. 23 min.
“The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail” (1952) 59 min.
“Seven Samurai” (1954) 3 hr. 27 min.
“I Live in Fear” (1955) 1 hr. 43 min.
“The Lower Depths” (1957) 2 hr. 5 min.
“Throne of Blood” (1957) 1 hr. 50 min.
“The Hidden Fortress” (1958) 2 hr. 19 min.
“The Bad Sleep Well” (1960) 2 hr. 31 min.
“Yojimbo” (1961) 1 hr. 51 min.
“Sanjuro” (1962) 1 hr. 36 min.
“High and Low” (1963) 2 hr. 24 min.
“Red Beard” (1965) 3 hr. 5 min.
“Dodes’ka-den” (1970) 2 hr. 20 min.
“Madadayo” (1993) 2 hr. 14 min.