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Akira Kurosawa Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Akira Kurosawa directed 27 films in our catalog, from 1943 to 1985. Top of the list is Seven Samurai ('1954), at 8.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.6. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Rashomon, 8.1 on IMDb against 98 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven Samurai '1954 | Action / Drama | 8.6 | 100% | 98 | 8.5 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 2 | High and Low '1963 | Drama / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 8.4 | 97% | 90 | 8.4 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 3 | Ikiru '1952 | Drama | 8.3 | 98% | 92 | 8.3 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 4 | Yojimbo '1961 | Drama / Thriller | 8.2 | 96% | 93 | 8.1 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 5 | Rashomon '1950 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 6 | Red Beard '1965 | Drama | 8.3 | 73% | 90 | 8.2 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 7 | Dersu Uzala '1975 | Drama | 8.2 | 73% | - | 7.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 8 | Throne of Blood '1957 | Drama | 8.0 | 96% | - | 7.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 9 | Ran '1985 | Action / Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 97 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 | The Hidden Fortress '1958 | Drama / Action | 8.0 | 96% | 89 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 11 | Sanjuro '1962 | Drama / Action / Comedy | 8.0 | 100% | 83 | 7.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 12 | The Bad Sleep Well '1960 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 13 | Stray Dog '1949 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 14 | Drunken Angel '1948 | Drama | 7.6 | 94% | - | 7.6 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 15 | Kagemusha '1980 | Action / Drama / War | 7.9 | 89% | 84 | 7.8 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 16 | Scandal '1950 | Drama | 7.2 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 17 | The Quiet Duel '1949 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.3 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 18 | One Wonderful Sunday '1947 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 88% | - | 7.2 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 19 | I Live in Fear '1955 | Drama | 7.3 | 73% | - | 7.3 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 20 | Dodes'ka-den '1970 | Drama | 7.3 | 73% | - | 7.1 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 21 | No Regrets for Our Youth '1946 | Drama | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 22 | The Idiot '1951 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 60% | - | 7.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 23 | The Lower Depths '1957 | Drama | 7.2 | 83% | - | 7.1 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 24 | The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail '1952 | Drama | 6.7 | 86% | - | 6.7 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 25 | Sanshiro Sugata '1943 | Drama | 6.7 | 80% | - | 6.5 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 26 | Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two '1945 | Action / Drama | 6.0 | - | - | 6.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 27 | The Most Beautiful '1944 | Drama / War | 5.6 | - | - | 5.6 | Akira Kurosawa |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.