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The Hidden Fortress (1958)

★ 8.0 · 701 ratings on TMDB

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

The Hidden Fortress poster★ 8.0

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.

DirectorAkira Kurosawa
CastIkio Sawamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kōji Mitsui, Minoru Chiaki, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita
GenresAction, Adventure, Drama
The emergence reading

The Hidden Fortress keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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