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1 January 2012
What better way to start a new year than with a fresh new Akira Kurosawa Film Club film, and what better film to do that more...
6 December 2011
Back in 2008, Kurosawa Production teased us with a range of events and releases for Kurosawa’s centenary, none of which really materialised as the centenary more...
6 December 2011 (2 comments)
If I’m deciphering today’s Japanese news reports correctly, an HTML5 based e-book format that can be read online in your browser will be launched in more...
1 December 2011 (21 comments)
Our last film club film of the month in 2011 is Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 work Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari, Tales of the Moon and the more...
1 November 2011 (9 comments)
Our Akira Kurosawa film club’s film of the month this November is Scandal (Sukyandaru or Shubun), Kurosawa’s 1950 film about the destructive powers of the more...
24 October 2011
Two new region 2 DVD box sets from the British Film Institute are released today. The sets are called Kurosawa: Classics Collection and Kurosawa: Crime more...
15 October 2011
Reports from New York Comic Con suggest that filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie is working on a multiplatform franchise project called Rubicon, which has been described as more...
27 May, 2009
Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive opens, making over 20,000 images available: scans of screenplays, photos, storyboards, drawings, notes, newspaper clippings, personal scribblings and much more!
30 October, 2009
Lars-Martin Sorensen's Censorship of Japanese Cinema published
8 December, 2009
Criterion releases the massive AK100: 25 Films of Akira Kurosawa box set
16 February, 2010
Lionsgate releases Ran on Blu-ray
9 March, 2010
Peter Cowie's Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema published
23 March, 2010
Criterion releases Yojimbo and Sanjuro on Blu-ray
23 March, 2010
100 years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa
3 August, 2010
Criterion releases The First Films of Akira Kurosawa box set
19 October, 2010
Criterion releases Seven Samurai on blu-ray
6 March, 2011
Kurosawa museum in Imari closes
28 March, 2011
BFI releases Early Kurosawa DVD box set
March, 2011
Akira Kurosawa Foundation dissolves
April, 2011
Company that owned a 50 % stake in Kurosawa's screenplays goes bankrupt
May, 2011
New Kurosawa documentary premieres at Cannes
July, 2011
Kodansha Europe publishes All the Emperor's Men in Europe (cancelled)
26 July, 2011
Criterion releases High and Low on blu-ray
24 October, 2011
BFI releases two new Kurosawa box sets on DVD
Our Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club kicked off in May 2008 with lively discussion on Rashomon.
Our intention is to go through Kurosawa's whole oeuvre one film at a time. Discussion of a new film will commence on the first of every month.
For more information and schedules, see the film club page.
AK100 Project - Akira Kurosawa Production launched a project that was supposed to celebrate Kurosawa's centenary throughout 2009 and 2010. Not much seemed to happen, however, especially not outside of Japan. For more information, try a search or go to the AK100 World Tour website.
Gendai no noo (Modern Noh) - As part of the AK100 project, Kurosawa's unfinished 1983 documentary on Noh theatre was to be completed and released sometime in 2010. Current status unknown.
The Masque of Black Death - Also AK100 related, Kurosawa's unfilmed script for Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of Red Death is being turned into an animated film, and was originally to be released in mid-2010. Current status unknown.
The Magnificent Eleven - Irvine Welsh is working on a soccer remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Dragon Eyes - Producer Joel Silver is putting together a modern day martial arts retelling of Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Here's the announcement.
High and Low remake - Martin Scorsese has been working since the early 1990s to get Kurosawa's High and Low remade in Hollywood. Mike Nichols is currently set to direct, while comedian Chris Rock is working on the script. Here's the latest.
Seven Samurai Hollywood remake - The Weinstein Company and Kurosawa Production are working on a contemporary remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Here's the latest.
Jim Sheridan's Ikiru remake - There have been rumours that Jim Sheridan is working on a remake of Kurosawa's Ikiru. Very little is currently known about the project.
Ni-oh - Koei is working on a video game, which at least at some point was based on an unfilmed Kurosawa script. Here is the latest.
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