Because “The Bad Sleep Well” had not performed as expected commercially, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa decided to return to the jidai-geki with what is...
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In 1959, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was at the height of his success in his home country and had received much international praise for features such as...
by Vikram Zutshi When Akira Kurosawa passed away in 1998, the tributes poured in endlessly. He had been a major influence on some of the most important...
About the Film This Soviet-Japanese co-production was the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1975. Furthermore, the film reinvigorated...
Arthouse director Tsai Ming-liang sits down with Nogami Teruyo, who used to be a screenwriter for Akira Kurosawa for nearly half a century, to talk about...
Akira Kurosawa's directorial debut is based on the homonymous novel by Tsuneo Tomita, the son of prominent judoka Tsunejiro Tomita, with the main character...
“I had the following dream…” When “Ran” was released in 1985 many cinephiles as well as critics thought it would be the swan song of director Akira...
“Red Beard” is a film that reminds one that the distance to be travelled is far longer than the distance that was already covered. Not only in the...
TORICO is a director, fashion designer and blogger. Her first short film, “Mikagami” (2004) received great reviews after its screening in Fantasia...
Three decades after its initial release, Kurosawa's “Ran” gets a new edition after being restored in 4k condition. The adaptation of Shakespeare's...