Long Take is a revelatory new portrait of Akira Kurosawa, the masterful Japanese filmmaker whose classic films include ...

History is filled with talented directors, many of whom are active today (directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and many others). Unfortunately, as fantastic as these ...

Akira Kurosawa’s legacy is getting the 4K treatment with a massive U.S. festival. Film Forum in New York City will be hosting a special retrospective to honor the late auteur, including the U.S.

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Looking at the output of famed Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa throughout the 1960s is bittersweet, because he was extremely prolific for the first half of the decade or so, releasing one great film ...

Akira Kurosawa a prolific and internationally acclaimed Japanese filmmaker whose career spanned over five decades and thirty films that influenced artists of diverse cultures and mediums, including ...

Akira Kurosawa could very well be the single most influential filmmaker of the 20th century. With the possible exception of Alfred Hitchcock, no filmmaker has been more frequently shouted out by ...

I was first introduced to Akira Kurosawa's work in a Film Literature class I took in high school. We were shown a scene from the 1954 film, "Seven Samurai," considered one of his masterpieces, and I ...

Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of all time and now two of his best films, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, are finally available in a 4K Blu-ray Criterion Collection set. Even ...

As Julia Izumi jokes early on in Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live and Active Cultures), there can be something a little awkward about a playwright appearing in their own ...

Japanese stage and movie actor Tatsuya Nakadai, who starred in a string of Akira Kurosawa films, including the lead in "Ran", has died aged 92, his acting school said on Tuesday. Nakadai first rose to ...