Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog has a new entry on the opening shots of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. Do take a look.
An exhibition of Akira Kurosawa’s paintings opened yesterday at the Meguro Gajoen centre in Tokyo. The event, which lasts until the 13th of August this year, is titled “Hundred-stepped Stairway More...
Malaysia Star quotes Donnie Yen, who in a press conference yesterday confirmed that the Weinstein Company’s project for a Hollywood remake of Seven Samurai is still in its very early More...
The Japan film news blog Ryuganji reported today that a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 film Tsubaki Sanjuro (or “Sanjuro” in English) is being prepared in Japan. The film, which More...
Update: Copyright law is complicated, and it now seems that Kurosawa is still very much under copyright. See this news item. Original post: News are emerging that a Tokyo District More...
The film blog Cinematical has run an article about the seven oddest director actor combos. Akira Kurosawa makes the list with his Rhapsody in August star Richard Gere.
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