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14 March 2010 (2 comments)
Peter Cowie’s new book Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema was published last week to roughly coincide with Kurosawa’s centenary on March 23. Being a coffee more...4 March 2010 (28 comments)
Film historian Peter Cowie’s new book Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema is as far as I can see now published and on its way to more...
1 March 2010 (5 comments)
On March 23rd it will be a full hundred years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa. To celebrate the occasion, Criterion has dedicated the whole more...
27 February 2010
A week or so ago Lionsgate released Kurosawa’s Ran in blu-ray as part of their StudioCanal line, so I thought that it is time to more...
27 February 2010 (1 comment)
You may remember a short news update I posted last year about Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh’s new film The Magnificent Eleven, which is a soccer more...
8 February 2010 (3 comments)
Daily Yomiuri online reports that around 380 million yen, or 4.25 million US dollars worth of Akira Kurosawa Foundation assets are currently unaccounted for. The more...
1 January 2010
Last month’s film club feature Sanjuro (1962) was based on a novel by Shugoro Yamamoto, and this month we continue in the same mode by more...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
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.
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.
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