FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
The Hidden Fortress
No freely reusable poster is available for this title.
Scores
- IMDb8.0/10as of 2026-02-17
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer96%as of 2026-02-17
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.5/10as of 2021-10-10
- Metacritic89/100as of 2026-02-03
What it is
The Hidden Fortress is a 1958 Japanese epic jidaigeki adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It tells the story of two peasants who agree to escort a man and a woman across enemy lines in return for gold, without knowing that he is a general and she is a princess.
At a glance
- Genres
- Adventure / Drama
- Original language
- Japanese
Last synced · View on Wikidata
Catalogue facts and named scores are from Wikidata (CC0). The opening note, when present, is from Wikipedia. Posters, when present, come from Wikimedia Commons.