The 'Throne of Blood' script, up for auction this weekend, contains sketches and notes on the set design of the iconic ...
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 ...
The wonder of Akira Kurosawa’s 50-year career is that it was at once remarkably varied and satisfyingly coherent. Kurosawa (1910-98) elevated the samurai genre and reinvented action filmmaking. He ...
Akira Kurosawa remains one of the best filmmakers ever, with several masterpieces to his name. However, despite being one of the best directors in history, Kurosawa only earned one Oscar nomination, ...
A FILM by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa will be shown at Skipton Plaza on March 1. Stray Dog from 1949 is a ...
The Japanese genre maestro’s latest feature follows an ambitious merchant who gets in way over his head while trying to make a fortune on the internet. By Jordan Mintzer Although he’s primarily known ...
The plot of director Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, “Seven Samurai,” can be summed up in one sentence: Mercenaries are hired to protect a farming village from marauding bandits. Yet within that simple ...
If you’re already deep into the new PS4 game “Ghost of Tsushima” and you haven’t toggled on Kurosawa Mode, the optional black and white filter that makes everything resemble the samurai films of ...