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Daily Yomimuri review of ‘The Last Princess’
9 May, 2008 Daily Yomimuri Online has a review of the new Hidden Fortress remake The Last Princess. Unlike the Mark Schilling review that I linked to earlier More...Mark Schilling reviews ‘The Last Princess’
9 May, 2008 The Japan Times’s Mark Schilling, who has written extensively on modern Japanese film, gave us the first verdict of last year’s remake of Sanjuro, and More...AK Film Club: ‘Drunken Angel’ for June, other films to follow
8 May, 2008 (4 comments) Although we have yet but scratched the surface of Rashomon with our first ever Film Club discussion series, it is already time to start thinking More...Forum issues (please read)
5 May, 2008 Just a heads-up: some legitimate posts have recently been caught by the forum spam filter and been marked as spam, therefore not making the posts More...Toho sues Cosmo… yet again
2 May, 2008 (1 comment) Toho has reportedly sued Cosmo for $130,000, this time due to the company manufacturing three classic non-Kurosawa films that Toho holds the copyright for. Earlier More...USC screening of The Last Princess
2 May, 2008 (2 comments) Japan Zone and Tokyo Graph have short articles on the recent University of Southern California screening of The Last Princess, a remake of Kurosawa’s The More...News archives »
Rashomon : Why They Lie
Rashomon: the Soundtrack
Rashomon: The Relativity of Truth, or Plain Old-Fashioned Lying?
Rashomon: the symbolism
Rashomon: The Medium
AK100 has a website
AK Film Club: 'Drunken Angel' for June, other films to follow
May 23 DVD release for Morita's Sanjuro
Books on Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa's Movies on DVD
Information Contents
Other Movies with Kurosawa's Involvement
Documentaries on Akira Kurosawa
News alerts
27 November, 2007
Criterion releases Drunken Angel DVD
1 December, 2007
Yoshimitsu Morita's remake of Sanjuro opens in Japan. See IMDb and the official website for more information.
December, 2007
University Press of Mississippi publishes Akira Kurosawa: Interviews as part of their "Conversations With Filmmakers" book series
15 January, 2008
DVDs of I Live in Fear (aka Record of a Living Being), The Idiot, No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday, and Scandal released as Postwar Kurosawa Collection in Criterion's "Eclipse" series
10 May, 2008
Shinji Higuchi's remake of The Hidden Fortress premiers in Japan
22 July, 2008
Criterion re-releases High and Low on DVD
6 September, 2008
10 years since the death of Akira Kurosawa
23 March, 2010
100 years since the birth of Akira Kurosawa
AK100 Project
As the centenary of Kurosawa's birth (23 March 2010) draws nearer, Akira Kurosawa Production has launched a project that will make available "exhibitions of Kurosawa's work, newly published books and stamps, merchandise and tie-ups with TV broadcasters and video game companies" over the next few years. For more information, try a search.
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.