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The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Film · 1958 · 139 min · Drama · Action · Adventure

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

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.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Starring Toshirō Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Ikio Sawamura, Kōji Mitsui

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First release anywhere28 December 1958

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