Name a film directed by Akira Kurosawa: rare answers

Answering “Name a film directed by Akira Kurosawa”? Our list has 31 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Ran only score 10. Deep cuts such as Scandal, One Wonderful Sunday and Sanshiro Sugata Part II score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 31
Category: Movies
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 11 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 1 answers
First letters: 14 different; S is the most common (6)

🐙 Abyssal: 4 answers (13%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 7 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 9 answers (29%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 8 answers (26%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 3 answers (10%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

4 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: Scandal, One Wonderful Sunday, Sanshiro Sugata Part II and Those Who Make Tomorrow. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Scandal, One Wonderful Sunday, Sanshiro Sugata Part II, Those Who Make Tomorrow

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Madadayo, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, No Regrets for Our Youth, I Live in Fear, The Quiet Duel, The Lower Depths, The Most Beautiful

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Stray Dog, Drunken Angel, Sanjuro, Red Beard, The Idiot, The Bad Sleep Well, Sanshiro Sugata, Dodes'ka-den, Rhapsody in August

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Yojimbo, Ikiru, Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha, The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, High and Low, Dreams

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ran

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Sanshiro Sugata Part II: Sanshiro Sugata Part 2

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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Name a film that won the Oscar for Best International (Foreign Language) Feature Film (2 shared, such as Dersu Uzala, Rashomon)