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1 September 2010
This September our online film club will focus on Kurosawa’s first film, Sanshiro Sugata (1943), and its sequel Sanshiro Sugata II (1945). We had something more...
3 August 2010
Criterion’s much awaited First Films of Akira Kurosawa box set is here! Released as part of the Eclipse series, it includes Kurosawa’s first four more...
1 August 2010 (6 comments)
Early silent films by Yasujiro Ozu are the topic of our film club this August. More specifically, we will be looking at three silent comedies, more...
23 July 2010 (8 comments)
A new stage adaptation of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood has premiered at the annual Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, United States. Written and directed more...
17 July 2010 (2 comments)
Some of you may remember a news post I wrote a while back about Vladimir Vasilyev, assistant director for Kurosawa during the production of Dersu more...
16 July 2010
I don’t usually post news about sales, but this one sounds like something that many of you might be interested in: there is a Criterion more...
16 July 2010
Criterion has announced that it will release Seven Samurai on blu-ray on October 19th. The release was originally scheduled to coincide with Kurosawa’s centenary this more...
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
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
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 has happened, however. 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 sometime in 2010.
The Masque of Black Death - Also AK100 related, Kurosawa's unfilmed script for Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of Red 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.
High and Low remake - Martin Scorsese has been working since the early 1990s to get 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 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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