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Optimum to release ‘Ran’ on Blu-ray

Ran (Optimum)17 June, 2009 According to Blu-ray.com, Optimum Home Entertainment will release Ran on Blu-ray on September 28. The UK release may be region-locked to Blu-ray region B. A more...

‘Seven Samurai’, this time in the Middle Ages

Seven Samurai10 June, 2009 (1 comment) Do you ever have the feeling that Seven Samurai is a little bit everywhere these days? Well, with last year’s Japanese Pachinko remake, the Weinsteins more...

Review: The Last Princess

The Last Princess7 June, 2009 (9 comments) If you have been a reader for some time, you may remember last year’s Japanese remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, which got some fairly more...

AK Online Film Club #14: Kagemusha

Kagemusha1 June, 2009 (13 comments) Welcome to the 14th edition of our very own social experiment dubbed the Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club! For us, fourteen is an excellent number more...

Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive opens

Red Beard script cover27 May, 2009 (11 comments) Would you be interested in seeing some twenty thousand pages of Kurosawa’s screenplays, photos, storyboards, drawings, notes, newspaper clippings, personal scribblings and other materials? If more...

First ‘Tajomaru’ teaser trailer

Rashomon26 May, 2009 NipponCinema.com has the first teaser trailer for Hiroyuki Nakano’s forthcoming film Tajomaru. As reported earlier, the film follows the adventures of the titular rogue from more...

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Latest Discussion

Princess Mononoke

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Kagemusha: Fire Without Smoke (or: How to End an Epic)

Last post 7 days ago by lawless (total posts: 12)

Kagemusha: Is it his most reactionary film?

Last post 7 days ago by lawless (total posts: 7)

Toho launches Blu-ray series.

Last post 9 days ago by Fabien (total posts: 1)

I Survived a Japanese Game Show

Last post 9 days ago by cocoskyavitch (total posts: 13)

Kagemusha: Shingen as comedian

Last post 9 days ago by Ugetsu (total posts: 8)

Kagemusha and the Chinese Landscape Painting

Last post 2 weeks ago by Jeremy Quintanilla (total posts: 10)

Guide to the Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive

Last post 2 weeks ago by Vili Maunula (total posts: 18)

Akira Kurosawa Digital Archive opens

Last post 2 weeks ago by Jeremy Quintanilla (total posts: 11)

Kagemusha: How to Begin an Epic

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Recent & Upcoming Events

6 September, 2008
10 years since the death of Akira Kurosawa

17 March, 2009
Criterion releases Dodesukaden

23 March, 2009
99 years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa

23 March, 2009
Akira Kurosawa Film School opens in Anaheim

12 May, 2009
Criterion releases Ran on Blu-ray (cancelled)

26 May, 2009
Palgrave publishes Dolores Martinez's Remaking Kurosawa

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!

18 August, 2009
Criterion releases Kagemusha on Blu-ray

18 August, 2009
Optimum releases Ran on Blu-ray

29 September, 2009
Japanese premiere for Tajomaru

23 March, 2010
100 years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club

Our Akira Kurosawa Online Film Club kick started 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.

Other Topical Issues

AK100 Project - As the centenary of Kurosawa's birth (23 March 2010) draws nearer, Akira Kurosawa Production has launched a project that will celebrate Kurosawa throughout 2009 and 2010. 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 is to be completed and released, possibly in late 2009 or early 2010.

The Masque of Black Death - Also AK100 related, Kurosawa's unfilmed script for Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of Black Death is currently being turned into an animated film, and will be released in mid-2010.

Rashomon restoration - Rashomon has been digitally restored and the print is currently screened around the world.

The Magnificent Eleven - Irvine Welsh is working on a soccer remake of Seven Samurai.

Seven Samurai Hollywood remake - The Weinstein Company and Kurosawa Production are reportedly working on a contemporary remake of Seven Samurai. Search akirakurosawa.info for more information.

Jim Sheridan's Ikiru remake - There are rumours that Jim Sheridan is working on a remake of Ikiru. Very little is currently known about the project.