title: A Better Tomorrow function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment MPAA rating: Not rated starring: Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat, Emily Chu, Lee Waise, Shing Gui-On, Kenneth Tsang, John Woo release year: 1986 film rating: Four stars reviewed by: Bill Warren This dazzling, sentimental and handsome crime thriller from Hong Kong is the movie that at once started and established John Woo's reputation as one of the greatest of all action-film directors. Over the next few years, 'A Better Tomorrow II,' 'A Bullet in the Head' and, especially, 'The Killer' only confirmed his talent. For the first time, 'A Better Tomorrow' has been given an excellent US DVD release by, no surprise, Anchor Bay. This busy company has developed a strong reputation for high-quality releases of foreign thrillers, horror movies, the movies of cult directors and so forth. They deserve the support and patronage of every movie buff. 'A Better Tomorrow' was written by Chan Hing-Ka Chan and Leung Suk-Wah Leung (with uncredited ...

title: Yojimbo function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close();  studio: Criterion -- The Classic Collection MPAA rating: Unrated starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono, Kamatari Fujiwara, Takashi Shimura, Sizaburo Kawazu, Isuzu Yamada, Tatsuya Nakadai release year: 1961 film rating: Five stars A/V rating: Four Stars reviewed by: Bill Warren No director made more outstanding films than Akira Kurosawa -- nobody, not John Ford, not Alfred Hitchcock. Unfortunately, he's known in the US more by his reputation than from many of his movies having been seen here. The major titles, "Rashomon," "The Seven Samurai," maybe one more, have been widely shown here and are available on video.

title: Sanjuro function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Criterion MPAA rating: NR starring: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yuzo Kayama, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura, Takako Irie, Masao Shimizu, Yunosuke Ito release year: 1962 film rating: Four-and-a-half stars sound/picture: Three-and-a-half Stars reviewed by: Bill Warren "Yojimbo" was a major hit in Japan, so Toho (the production company) persuaded Akira Kurosawa to make the only sequel of his career, "Sanjuro." He and collaborators Ryuzo Kikushima and Hideo Oguni had written a script prior to "Yojimbo" intended for another director. It was rewritten to fit Toshiro Mifune's character of Sanjuro, and the resulting film was an even bigger hit in Japan than "Yojimbo," though it is somewhat less well-known elsewhere than its predecessor.