Akira Kurosawais a filmmaker who directed numerous great movies during his 50+ year-long career.

The following 10 films are all among those that don’t quite get the love they deserve.

The images inDreamsare so striking that you’d think Kurosawa had been making films in color all his life.

Underrated Kurosawa

After all, if it’s a B+ sequel to an A-grade samurai movie, that’s still impressive.

It’s surprising, then, that the film is quite a character-focused and small-scale one.

The acting from its large ensemble cast is strong, and it also looks fantastic.

Dreams - 1990

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Kagemusha - 1980

Sanjuro - 1962

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cast of Red Beard (1965) fighting

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Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura in ‘Stray Dog’

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Dersu Uzala - 1975

Two men look depressed in an underground cellar in The Bad Sleep Well (1960).

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Drunken Angel - 1948

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I Live in Fear - 1955

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